Labouring Children: British Immigrant Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924

by Joy Parr

Labouring Children (1980) is a study of child immigrants, based on numerous original sources, and presents new views on childhood, social work and Canadian rural communities. Between 1868 and 1925 eighty thousand British boys and girls, mostly under fourteen, were apprenticed as agricultural labourers and domestic servants in rural Canada. A surprising feature is the involvement of the Evangelicals, who considered that they were giving children...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032367326
• ISBN13: 9781032367323
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 180 Pages