Preface
1. Introduction
Part I: Race and Gender
2. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia Turner
Afua Cooper
3. “Both silly and loose”: Deconstructing Women’s Criminal Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Oxford County, Ontario
Rebecca Beausaert
4. The Case of the “One Good Chinaman”: Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909
Mona-Margaret Pon
5. The History of Education at Six Nations of the Grand River, 1828–1939
Alison Norman
6. “I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them”: Women’s Industrial Softball, London, Ontario, 1923–1935
Carly Adams
Part II: Class, Business, and Politics
7. “Cracking the Stone” and Marching under Flags Black and Red: Toronto’s Dispossessed in the Age of Industry, 1880–1925
Bryan Palmer and Gaetan Heroux
8. The Rise and Fall of an Ontario Business Dynasty: William Kennedy & Sons and Its Successors, 1857–1997
Keith R. Fleming
9. Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern Ontario
Jean L. Manore
10. The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental Relations
P.E. Bryden
11. Power at the Centre: The Evolution of the Premier’s Office in Ontario since 1945
Patrice Dutil and Peter P. Constantinou
12. New Public Management, New Technology: Who Foots the Bill? Information Infrastructure Renewal in Ontario, 1996–2003
David Rapaport
Part III: Family
13. Families, Institutions, and the State in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Edgar-Andre Montigny
14. “A Barren Cupboard at Home”: Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression, 1929–1939
Lara Campbell
15. Adoption Records in Ontario: Secrecy and the Movement for Reform
Valerie Andrews and Lori Chambers
Part IV: Epidemiologies and Environments
16. “I had a little bird, its name was Enza”: Children and Adolescents in Ontario and the 1918–20 Spanish Flu
James A. Onusko
17. From Polluted Periphery to Vital Green Corridor: Toronto’s Don River Valley, 1793–1989
Jennifer L. Bonnell
18. Ontario and a Changing Climate
Mark Winfield and Colleen Kaiser
Part V: The State and Welfare
19. “By Every Means in Our Power”: Child and Maternal Welfare in Ontario, 1914 to 1940
Cynthia R. Comacchio
20. The Birch Battles: Daycare and the Welfare State in 1970s Ontario
Lisa Pasolli
21. Intolerable Harm: Demanding Mental Health Services for Franco-Ontarian Youth Prior to the Montfort Hospital Crisis
Mathieu Arsenault and Marcel Martel
22. A Disability History of Ontario from Confederation to the Coronavirus Pandemic, 1867–2020
Geoffrey Reaume
23. Welfare to Workfare to Basic Income: Poverty and the “Dependency Debate” in Ontario, from the 1930s to 2020
James Struthers
