Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. Patterns of Gendered Labour and the Development of Ontario Agriculture 1
5. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia Turner 16
6. The Wikwemikong First Nation and the Department of Indian Affairs’ Mismanagement of Petroleum Development 40
7. The Other Side: The Rhetoric of Labour Reform in Toronto during the 1870s 55
8. Families, Institutions, and the State in Late-Nineteenth-Century Ontario 74
9. Oliver Mowat, Patronage, and Party Building 94
10. ‘Cultivation’ and the Middle-Class Self: Manners and Morals in Victorian Ontario 105
11. The State, Public Education, and Morality: Evaluating the Results of School Promotion, 1893–1896 126
12. The Case of the ‘One Good Chinaman’: Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909 147
13. ‘By Every Means in Our Power’: Maternal and Child Welfare in Ontario, 1900–1945 166
14. Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern Ontario 195
15. ‘Salvaging War’s Waste’: The University of Toronto and the ‘Physical Reconstruction’ of Disabled Soldiers during the First World War 214
16. Illegitimate Children and the Children of Unmarried Parents Act 235
17. ‘That Repulsive Abnormal Creature I Heard of in That Book’: Lesbians and Families in Ontario, 1920–1965 260
18. ‘A Barren Cupboard at Home’: Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression 284
19. Citizen Participation in the Welfare State: The Recreation Movement in Brantford, 1945–1957 307
20. Managing Water Quality in the Great Lakes Basin: Sewage Pollution Control, 1951–1960 339
21. The CCF and Post–Second World War Politics in Ontario 362
22. The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Negotiations 381
23. ‘We Want Facts, Not Morals!’ Unwanted Pregnancy, the Toronto Women’s Caucus, and Sex Education 409
24. Welfare to Workfare: Poverty and the ‘Dependency Debate’ in Post–Second World War Ontario 429
25. Contributors 455