Research Catalog

Title

Whatever happened to Mary Janeway? : a home child story / Mary Pettit.

Author

Pettit, Mary, 1948-

Publication

Toronto, ON : Dundurn Press, 2012.

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Details

Description

284 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

Continues the story of Mary Janeway, who came to Canada as a home child, as she runs away from her rural home child placement at age sixteen, works various domestic positions, and finally marries and settles in Hamilton, the city she will come to call home.

Subject

• Janeway, Mary > Fiction
• Home children (Canadian immigrants) > Ontario > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Fiction
• Historical fiction
• Biographical fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-284).

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic format.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: One. London -- Two. Summer in Goderich -- Three. Back in London -- Four. Mrs. B. Gets Sick -- Five. Woodstock -- Six. Hamilton -- Seven. Lunch Pail Town -- Eight. Queen Victoria's Birthday -- Nine. Church Family -- Ten. Infantile Paralysis -- Eleven. Unexpected Visitors -- Twelve. Life Goes On -- Thirteen. Dream Comes True -- Fourteen. Hamilton: A City of Firsts -- Fifteen. Missing Person -- Sixteen. Centennial Celebrations -- Seventeen. Wedding and a War -- Eighteen. Bitter Cold Winter -- Nineteen. Armistice -- Twenty. Roaring Twenties -- Twenty-One. Mr. Jacques's Funeral -- Twenty-Two. Child Is Born, a Child Is Lost -- Twenty-Three. Picking up the Pieces -- Twenty-Four. Knock on the Door -- Twenty-Five. Kingston Penitentiary -- Twenty-Six. Ottawa Street -- Twenty-Seven. Stony Mountain -- Twenty-Eight. Freedom at Last -- Twenty-Nine. Great Crash -- Thirty. Turning Point -- Thirty-One. Family at Last -- Thirty-Two. Milestone -- Thirty-Three. Final Chapter.

ISBN

9781459701717

OCLC

• 772686012
• SCSB-12032654

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library