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"So often a long-awaited book is disappointing. Happily such is not the case with Sutherland's masterpiece." Robert M. Stamp, University of Calgary, in
The Canadian Historical Review "Sutherland's work is destined to be a landmark in Canadian history, both as a first in its particular field and as a standard reference text." J. Stewart Hardy, University of Alberta, in
Alberta Journal of Educational Research Such were the reviewers' comments when Neil Sutherland's groundbreaking book was first published. Now reissued in Wilfrid Laurier University Press's new series "Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada," with a new introduction by series editor Cynthia Comacchio, this book remains relevant today. In the late nineteenth century a new generation of reformers committed itself to a program of social improvement based on the more effective upbringing of all children. In
Children in English-Canadian Society, Neil Sutherland examines, with a keen eye, the growth of the public health movement and its various efforts at improving the health of children.
About the author
Neil Sutherland served for 37 years in the University of British Columbia's Department of Educational Studies. He was the principal investigator of the Canadian Childhood History Project located at UBC, and has published articles, reviews and a number of books, most recently
Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television. He is the author of
Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus(WLU Press, 2000).
Cynthia Comacchio is a professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. Her previous publications include
Nations Are Built of Babies: Saving Ontarios Mothers and Children, 1900 to 1940 and
The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850 to 1940. With Elizabeth Jane Errington, she edited
People, Places and Times: Topics in Canadian Social History, vol. 1:
Pre-Confederation and vol. 2:
Post-Confederation.
