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

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

Reprints in Canadian History

Joy Parr

181 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction childrens history politics emotional informative reflective medium-paced
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Between 1868-1924, 80,000 British children, most of them under fourteen, came to Canada to be apprenticed as labourers and domestic servents. Joy Parr's study of these children, first published in 1980, became a significant resource for courses in...

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