Title The guardianship of best interests : institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 / Renée N. Lafferty.

Publication Info.	Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2012]
	©2012

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Series	McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 60
	McGill-Queen's studies in the history of religion. Series two ; 60.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents	"We Need No Reform": The Organization of Local Services and Administrative Innovation, c. 1850-1924 -- Race Uplift, Racism, and the Childhood Ideal: Founding and Funding the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children -- The Unremitting Exercise of Watchfulness: Institutional Environments, Routines, and Practices -- "Out of Mutual Respect Will Come Mutual Responsibility": Coordinating Services and Promoting Interagency Cooperation after World War One -- Managing "High Standards of Professional Ethics": Institutionalization, Gwendolen Lantz, and the Emergence of the "Modern" Children's Home, c. 1940-1952 -- From Protection to Treatment: Group Care and the Transformation of the Institution after World War Two -- Conclusion.
Summary	A history of charitable children's homes and emergent state-centred child welfare policy in Nova Scotia.
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Subject	Poor children -- Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
	Poor children -- Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
	Urban poor -- Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
	Urban poor -- Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
	Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 19th century -- Case studies.
	Institutional care.
	Nova Scotia -- Halifax.
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Genre/Form	Case studies.
Subject	Institutional care -- Nova Scotia -- Halifax -- History -- 20th century -- Case studies.
Chronological Term	20th century
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Electronic books.
	Case studies.
Other Form:	Print version: Lafferty, Renée Nicole, 1973- Guardianship of best interests. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2012 9780773540552 (OCoLC)793221964
ISBN	9780773587946 (electronic book)
	0773587942 (electronic book)
	9780773540552
	0773540555
	9781283901567
	1283901560

Title The guardianship of best interests : institutional care for the children of the poor in Halifax, 1850-1960 / Renée N. Lafferty.

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