Preface  1. Introduction Part I: Race and Gender 2. Putting Flesh on the Bones: Writing the History of Julia TurnerAfua Cooper 3. “Both silly and loose”: Deconstructing Women’s Criminal Behaviour in Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Oxford County, OntarioRebecca Beausaert 4. The Case of the “One Good Chinaman”: Rex v. Charles Lee Hing, Stratford, Ontario, 1909Mona-Margaret Pon 5. The History of Education at Six Nations of the Grand River, 1828–1939Alison Norman 6. “I Just Felt Like I Belonged to Them”: Women’s Industrial Softball, London, Ontario, 1923–1935Carly 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, 1880–1925Bryan Palmer and Gaetan Heroux 8. The Rise and Fall of an Ontario Business Dynasty: William Kennedy & Sons and Its Successors, 1857–1997Keith R. Fleming 9. Indian Reserves v. Indian Lands: Reserves, Crown Lands, and Natural Resource Use in Northeastern OntarioJean L. Manore 10. The Ontario-Quebec Axis: Postwar Strategies in Intergovernmental RelationsP.E. Bryden 11. Power at the Centre: The Evolution of the Premier’s Office in Ontario since 1945Patrice Dutil and Peter P. Constantinou 12. New Public Management, New Technology: Who Foots the Bill? Information Infrastructure Renewal in Ontario, 1996–2003David Rapaport Part III: Family 13. Families, Institutions, and the State in Late Nineteenth-Century OntarioEdgar-Andre Montigny 14. “A Barren Cupboard at Home”: Ontario Families Confront the Premiers during the Great Depression, 1929–1939Lara Campbell 15. Adoption Records in Ontario: Secrecy and the Movement for ReformValerie 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 FluJames A. Onusko 17. From Polluted Periphery to Vital Green Corridor: Toronto’s Don River Valley, 1793–1989Jennifer L. Bonnell 18. Ontario and a Changing ClimateMark 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 1940Cynthia R. Comacchio 20. The Birch Battles: Daycare and the Welfare State in 1970s OntarioLisa Pasolli 21. Intolerable Harm: Demanding Mental Health Services for Franco-Ontarian Youth Prior to the Montfort Hospital CrisisMathieu Arsenault and Marcel Martel 22. A Disability History of Ontario from Confederation to the Coronavirus Pandemic, 1867–2020Geoffrey Reaume 23. Welfare to Workfare to Basic Income: Poverty and the “Dependency Debate” in Ontario, from the 1930s to 2020James Struthers

“The new edition of Ontario Since Confederation examines monumental changes in both the province’s history and the field of historical research, including methodology and thematic coverage. Well-written and engaging, the volume’s major strengths lie in how the individual chapters situate their particular topics within the long sweep of Ontario and Canadian history, taking them up to the present day. This approach allows students to connect current issues and controversies with their historical roots, particularly in the chapters on disease, daycare, and social policies such as poverty reduction.”