Depicting Canada’s Children

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Depicting Canada’s Children is a critical analysis of the visual representation of Canadian children from the seventeenth century to the present. Recognizing the importance of methodological diversity, these essays discuss understandings of children and childhood derived from depictions across a wide range of media and contexts. But rather than simply examine images in formal settings, the authors take into account the components of the images and the role of image-making in everyday life. The contributors provide a close study of the evolution of the figure of the child and shed light on the defining role children have played in the history of Canada and our assumptions about them. Rather than offer comprehensive historical coverage, this collection is a catalyst for further study through case studies that endorse innovative scholarship. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history, Canadian history, visual culture, Canadian studies, and the history of children.

Sujets

• Art
• Cultural Studies

Informations

• Publié par: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Date de parution: 07 avril 2011
• Nombre de lectures: 1
• EAN13: 9781554587292
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 4 Mo

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DEPICTING CANADA S CHILDREN
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada
Studies in Childhood and Family in Canada is a multidisciplinary series devoted to new perspectives on these subjects as they evolve. The series features studies that focus on the intersections of age, class, race, gender, and region as they contribute to a Canadian understanding of childhood and family, both historically and currently.
Series Editor
Cynthia Comacchio
Department of History
Wilfrid Laurier University
Manuscripts to be sent to
Brian Henderson, Director
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
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DEPICTING CANADA S CHILDREN
LOREN LERNER, editor
This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, through the Aid to Scholarly Publications Programme, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We acknowledge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. We acknowledge the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program for our publishing activities.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Depicting Canada s children / edited by Loren Lerner.
(Studies in childhood and family in Canada)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-1-55458-050-7
1. Children-Canada-Pictorial works-History. 2. Children in art-History. 3. Childhood in art-History. 4. Photography of children-Canada-History. 5. Children-Canada-Social conditions. 6. Children-Canada-History. 7. Art, Canadian. I . Lerner, Loren R. (Loren Ruth), 1948- II . Series.
N 7640. D 46 2009 704.9 4250971 C 2008-906593-x
2009 Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Front cover image: Diego Asleep #2 , 1972 (oil on wood, 48 48 inches), by Jack Chambers; Toronto Dominion Bank Collection. Back cover image: Andrea and Dewi, 1973 (1973); photo by Robert Minden. Cover design by David Drummond. Text design by Catharine Bonas-Taylor.
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CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
INTRODUCTION
Loren Lerner
SYMBOL AND REALITY
Iconography of the Child in Early Quebec Art
Fran ois-Marc Gagnon
Shaping Modern Boyhood: Indian Lore, Child Psychology, and the Cultural Landscape of Camp Ahmek
Abigail A. Van Slyck
Haunted: First Nations Children in Residential School Photography
Sherry Farrell Racette
A Land of Youth: Nationhood and the Image of the Child in the National Film Board of Canada s Still Photography Division
Carol Payne
Mapping a Canadian Girlhood Historically through Dolls and Doll-Play
Jaqueline Reid-Walsh and Claudia Mitchell
OTHERS AND OUTSIDERS
The Raw Materials of Empire Building: Depicting Canada s Home Children
Alena M. Buis
Immigrants, Labourers, Others : Canada s Home Children
Margaret McNay
Re-Visioning the Girl s Narrative for the 1980s: The Case of the Short Story Jack of Hearts and Its Film Adaptation
Elspeth Tulloch
Locating Children in the Discourse of Squeegee Kids
Derek Foster
A Child s Place in Ottawa s Commemorative Landscape
Susan Hart
SUBJECTS OF CARE
Frocks and Bangles: The Photographic Conversion of Two Indian Girls
Sharon Murray
Pictures of Health: Sick Kids Exposed
Annmarie Adams, David Theodore, and Patricia McKeever
Healthy Bodies, Strong Citizens: Okanagan Children s Drawings and the Canadian Junior Red Cross
Andrea N. Walsh
Children and School Interiors: The User-Material Culture-Environment Nexus in Late Nineteenth-Century Toronto
Kai Wood Mah
INNER VISIONS
George Reid s Paintings as Narratives of a Child Nation
Loren Lerner
James Wilson Morrice s Return from School : A Modernist Image of Quebec Children
Sandra Paikowsky
Something Resembling Childhood: Artworks by Jack Chambers, Daniel Barrow, and Rodney Graham
Johanne Sloan
The Child in Me: A Figure of Photographic Creation
Martha Langford
Paterson Ewen s Portrait of Vincent
Monique Westra
CONTRIBUTORS
INDEX
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
Fig. 1.1 Montagnais woman in the Carte geographique de la Novvelle France , 1612, and Huron woman in the Voyages of 1619
Fig. 1.2 Historiae canadensis seu Novae Franciae Libri Decem , 1666, by Fran ois Du Creux
Fig. 1.3 Codex canadiensis , c. 1700, by Louis Nicolas
Fig. 1.4 Historiae canadensis seu Novae Franciae Libri Decem , plate V, 1666, by Fran ois Du Creux
Fig. 1.5 Sainte Famille la huronne , c. 1671, by Claude Fran ois (Fr re Luc)
Fig. 1.6 L Ange gardien , 1671, by Claude Fran ois (Fr re Luc)
Fig. 1.7 Ex-voto de Madame Riverin , 1703, Anonymous
Fig. 1.8 Cyprien Tanguay , 1832, by Antoine Plamondon
Fig. 1.9 Cyrice T tu et sa fille Caroline , 1852, by Th ophile Hamel
Fig. 1.10 Madame T tu et son fils Amable , 1852, by Th ophile Hamel
Fig. 1.11 Evelyn Pleasant, Clark Street, Montreal , 1936, by Louis Muhlstock
Fig. 2.1 Map of Camps Ahmek and Wapomeo, Algonquin Provincial Park, Ontario, c. 1928, by Harold V. Shaw
Fig. 2.2 Camp Ahmek council ring, 1922
Fig. 2.3 Jack Ridpath with totem pole, Camp Ahmek, 1922
Fig. 2.4 Ernest Thompson Seton and Woodcraft Indians conducting a council and war dance at Wyndygoul, in Connecticut, 1908
Fig. 2.5 Jousting tournament at the council ring at Camp Ahmek, c. 1923
Fig. 2.6 The medical cabin at Camp Ahmek, from the brochure for the 1931 season
Fig. 3.1 Thomas Moore, before and after tuition at the Regina Industrial School, 1896
Fig. 3.2a Parents and Children Attending Qu Appelle Industrial School, 1900
Fig. 3.2b Father and Children Attending Qu Appelle Industrial School, 1900
Fig. 3.3 Girls arriving at Spanish Indian Residential School from Manitoulin Island, c. 1950
Fig. 3.4 Pupils of the St. Joseph s Industrial School, High River, Alberta, 1900
Fig. 3.5 Students of the Anglican residential school at Pelican Falls watching a fisherman
Fig. 3.6 The Indian Boys of the Duck Lake Boarding School Working at the New Addition to Their School, 1900
Fig. 3.7 Sewing Room, Qu Appelle Industrial School, 1895
Fig. 3.8 Old Pupils of All Hallows School, Yale, B.C., Now in Domestic Service, 1902
Fig. 3.9a Boys working on building construction, Spanish Indian Residential School
Fig. 3.9b Adam Roy and Peter Cooper hoist their shovels, 1945, Spanish Indian Residential School, 1945
Fig. 3.10 Children praying to a statue of the Virgin Mary, Holy Angels Residential School, Fort Chipewyan, Alberta, 1931
Fig. 3.11 Girls Calisthenics Club, St. Paul s Indian Industrial School (near Winnipeg), 1900
Fig. 3.12 Boy and girl holding hands, Duck Lake Residential School, c. 1905
Fig. 3.13 Empty beds, Spanish Indian Residential School dormitory
Fig. 3.14 Cree children playing in the snow at residential school, Sturgeon Lake, Alberta, c. 1946
Fig. 4.1 Canada s Future Belongs to Them, National Film Board, Still Photography Division, 1964
Fig. 4.2 Mrs. E. Marr, physiotherapist, with Dorothy Gifford, 2 , at the walking bars in the polio clinic, Sudbury General Hospital, 1953
Fig. 4.3 Canada Will Start Trials of Polio Vaccine April 18, National Film Board, Still Photography Division, 1955
Fig. 4.4 Child behind crowd at Grey Cup Parade, May 1965
Fig. 5.1 Joan with her Eaton s Beauty doll, Christmas, 1939
Fig. 5.2 Claudia with her rubber wet-ums doll in carriage
Fig. 5.3 Bride doll
Fig. 6.1 The Raw Material as We Find It
Fig. 6.2 The Situation, Canadian Illustrated News , 1870
Fig. 6.3 E.E.J.M. Home for Working Destitute Lads
Fig. 6.4 A Boy Ploughing at Dr. Barnardo s Industrial Farm, Russell, Manitoba, c. 1900
Fig. 6.5 T.B with a Young Steer, 1915
Fig. 6.6 Frontispiece to R.M. Ballantyne, Dusty Diamonds, Cut and Polished , 1884
Fig. 7.1 Mr. Quarrier and a band of young emigrants, 1878
Fig. 7.2 Group of immigrant girls en route to Stratford, Ontario, 1908
Fig. 7.3 Party of 84 girls from Bridge-of-Weir, Scotland, 1905
Fig. 7.4 Group of immigrant boys and girls from Scotland arriving in Canada, 1921
Fig. 7.5 A Boy Ploughing at Dr. Barnardo s Industrial Farm, Russell, Manitoba, c. 1900
Fig. 7.6 Four Barnardo Children, in front of their Canadian classmates at Cavan School, Durham County, Ontario, 1912
Fig. 7.7 Boys Canadian party at Fairknowe, 1920. Inset: James McNay, April 1925
Fig. 8.1 Elizabeth Kessler peers out at the audience prior to going onstage as the male lead of her ballet recital, Jack of Hearts , 1986
Fig. 8.2 Elizabeth looks downcast as her fine-boned peers titter, J