Into the Library
Welcome to our library and digital resources page. Here, you can find useful secondary sources that were used to research the information found on this website.
A Few Books
Children in English-Canadian Society, Framing the Twentieth-Century Consensus
By Neil Sutherland. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1976.
This is a great source to understand what it was like to be a child in the late 19 to mid 20 century. Sutherland investigates how the growing public health movement, and changing understandings and beliefs surrounding childhood, improved children’s health. This allows for the experience of Home Children to be contextualized in its broader society.
Depicting Canada’s Children
Loren R. Lerner. Waterlook: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2009
Loren Lerner’s book is similar to Neil Sutherland’s in the sense that it looks into how children in general were perceived in Canada. It offers an amazing mix of well written texts that focus on analyzing photographs and visual representation of children in Canada.
Nation Builders: Barnardo Children in Canada
Gail H. Corbett, Toronto: Dundurn, 2002.
Gail Corbett’s book focuses specifically on the experience of Barnardo children in Canada. The text is rich with excerpts from historical sources, and photographs.
Little Immigrants: The Orphans Who Came to Canada
Kenneth Bagnell, Toronto: Dundurn Press, 2001
Kenneth Bagnell’s Little Immigrants is a wonderfully narrated book that goes in-depth into the experience of home children in Canada. Reader’s should be cautioned that Bagnell recounts many Home Children’s testimonies, which can be difficult to read.
