NEWSLETTER

Society for the History of Children and Youth

Canadian Happenings

Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia

85th Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association, May 2006

Despite sweltering weather and a city wide transit strike the first day of sessions, the Canadian Historical Association met at York University in North York, Toronto at the end of May, 2006. Four sessions (13 papers) were devoted to topics in the history of children and youth – an unprecedented number! We were delighted to have colleagues from the SHCY join a number of our sessions this year, either as presenters or as facilitators (Bill Bush from the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, Susan A. Miller from the University of Pennsylvania and Joe Hawes, from the University of Memphis).

Papers presented:

Patrick Ryan, King's College, University of Western Ontario
How "New" is the New Sociology of Childhood? Mapping the Landscape of Modern Ideas about Children

Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, University of Victoria
Rethinking the History of Ontario Day Nurseries: Loci for Intervention, Regulation, and Administration

Mona Gleason, University of British Columbia
Small Matters? Theorizing Age and Size in the History of Children and Youth

Jean Trépanier, Université de Montréal
Exploring the Practice of Probation in the Juvenile Justice System in Montreal, 1912-1950

Tamara Myers, University of Winnipeg
Condemning Kids with the Curfew: Regulation of Youth Beyond the Juvenile Court

William Bush, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
James Dean and Jim Crow: Boys in the Texas Juvenile Justice System in the 1950s

David Niget, Université Catholique de Louvain
"Former un travailleur utile et un honnête citoyen": la justice des mineurs comme outil d’intégration socio-politique. Québec, Belgique, France, 1900-1940

Stephanie Olsen, McGill University
Boys and Their Associations, Leagues, and Bands: The Key to Strong Families and Good Citizenship in Britain, 1880-1914

Michael Mercier, McMaster University
The Social Geography of Childhood Health, Toronto, 1901

Carolyn Kay, Trent University
Ideas of Bourgeois Child-Rearing in Early 20th-Century Berlin: Reforming Bad Mothers

Joselyn Christine Morley, Carleton University
“He is Worth Keeping Under These Conditions”: Correspondence Regarding the Children of the Protestant Orphan’s Home, Ottawa, 1900-1930

Kristine Alexander, York University
Goodwill and Sisterhood? The Girl Guide Movement and the Interwar “Empire Family”

Susan A. Miller, University of Pennsylvania
The Politics of Pageantry at Girls’ Summer Camps

The Growth of the History of Children and Youth Group (HCYG)

The HCYG, the SHCY’s Canadian counter-part, is truly gaining momentum. In conjunction with four sponsored sessions at this year’s CHA meetings, the HCYG moved to seek formal affiliation with the CHA in the fall of 2006. As our status becomes “official” we hope to pursue more opportunities to link with the SHCY. We encourage members of the SHCY to join the HCYG by contacting Mona Gleason at mona.gleason@ubc.ca

New Books of Interest!

Veronica Strong-Boag, Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Confronts Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990s. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006.

Cynthia Comacchio, Dominion of Youth: Adolescence and the Making of Canada, 1920-1950. Waterloo: WLU Press, 2006.

Tamara Myers, Caught: Montreal’s Modern Girls and the Law, 1869-1945. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, Forthcoming, 2007.