Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents iii
3. Foreword v
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xiii
6. ‘Elevate the Home’: Changing Attitudes to Children in English-Speaking Canada, 1870-1900
7. ‘A Good Home and Kind Treatment’: Late-Nineteenth-Century English-Canadian Attitudes to Children and Child-Rearing 3
8. ‘Multitudes Better Equipped ... than Their Fathers’: A New Childhood for a New Society 13
9. ‘To Create A Strong And Healthy Race’ Children in the Public Health Movement, 1880-1920
10. ‘Our Whole Aim Is Prevention’: Public Health in the Schools, 1880-1914 39
11. ‘Education ... Carried on Principally in the Home’: The Campaign to Reduce Infant Mortality, 1895-1920 56
12. ‘Invariably the Race Levels Down’: Mental Hygiene and Canadian Children 71
13. ‘How Can We Reach Them?’: Making Child Health a Nation-Wide Enterprise 79
14. ‘Remove The Young From Schools Of Crime’ Transforming the Treatment of Juvenile Delinquents, 1885-1925
15. From Reformatory to Family Home: Late-Nineteenth-Century Young Offenders in the Context of Changing Theory and Prevailing Practice 91
16. Towards ‘Intelligent and Progressive Legislation for the Prevention of Crime’: Preparing the Way for the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1886-1908 108
17. Trying to Make a ‘Child into What a Child Should Be’: Implementing the Juvenile Delinquents Act, 1908-1925 124
18. ‘The School Must Be the Agent’ Using the New Education to Make the New Society
19. Changing Albert School: The Institutional Context for Education Reform in Canada, 1890-1920 155
20. ‘A Very Strong Undercurrent of Dissatisfaction’: Setting the Stage for the ‘New’ Education, 1885-1900 172
21. ‘The Common Centre from which Radiated Plans and Labours’: The Macdonald-Robertson Movement Demonstrates the New Education to Canadians, 1900-1913 182
22. From Proposals to Policy: The ‘New’ Education Enters the Main Stream, 1910-1920 202
23. Children in English-Canadian Society in the Twentieth Century
24. ‘Launch a Generation’: Organizing to Implement the New Consensus 227
25. Notes 243
26. Bibliographic Note 315
27. Index 323