a history of adoption in Canada
- Categories
- Book/Boek
- Creator
- Strong-Boag, Veronica
- Publish Year
- 2006
- Shelfmark
- CAN 34 2006
- Thesaurus
- adoptie, historisch, wetgeving, etniciteit, sociale klasse, Canada, 19e eeuw, 20e eeuw
- Description
- Description of the history of adoption in English Canada from the nineteenth century to the 1990s. Each chapter contains a particular set of individual stories: childrearing, legislation, class relations, gender, religion, ethnicity and race, Aboriginal-settler contact, international exchanges, and (re)connection. The examines diverse sources including legislation, the popular media, royal commissions reports, biographies and autobiographies, and fiction and poetry.