History of Childhood in Canada, History of Women in Canada, The State and Social Welfare
Research Interests:
History of women and work
Family history (deviance, etc.)
Child welfare
Citations:
“‘Not
to be Ranked as Women’: Female Industrial Workers in Halifax at the Turn of the
Twentieth-Century,” Veronica Strong-Boag and Anita Clair Fellman, eds.,
Rethinking Canada: The Promise of Women’s History, 3rd edition. Toronto:
Oxford Press, 1997, 216-237.
“‘Revenge
and Revolt’: the New Brunswick Boy’s Industrial Home in the Inter-War Period,”
Hilary Thompson, ed., Children’s Voices in Atlantic Literature and Culture:
Essays on Childhood. Guelph: Children’s Literature Press, 1995,
104-113.
“‘Not
to be Ranked as Women’: Female Industrial Workers in Halifax at the Turn of the
Twentieth-Century,” Janet Guildford and Suzanne Morton, eds., Separate Spheres:
Women’s Worlds in the 19th-Century Maritimes. Fredericton: Acadiensis Press,
1994, pp. 161-183.
“Louisa
A. [Thomson] Donald,” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XIV. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1998, pp. 304-305.
“Alice
C. Davis [Hart],” Dictionary of Canadian Biography, Vol. XIV. Toronto:
University of Toronto Press, 1998, p. 274.
