Year: 2020, 2020
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Abstract: <p>The "Orillia Asylum for Idiots" (1861 - 2009), Canada's oldest and largest facility for the care and protection of children and adults with disabilities, was once praised as a beacon of humanitarian progress and described as a "community within a community." Yet, survivors who lived in the facility during the post Second World War period, a time described as the… more Full Text: THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF THE “ORILLIA ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS:” CHILDREN’S EXPERIENCES OF INSTITUTIONAL VIOLENCE A Thesis Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the …
Year: 2014, 2014
Member of: Trent University Graduate Thesis Collection
Name(s): Creator (cre): Onusko, James, Thesis advisor (ths): Sangster, Joan, Degree committee member (dgc): Marshall, Dominique, Degree committee member (dgc): Steffler, Margaret, Degree committee member (dgc): Walden, Keith, Degree granting institution (dgg): Trent University Abstract: <p>Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970</p><p>This dissertation explores the intersections between the suburban landscape both `real' and imagined, childhood, children and adolescents. I contend that there was a richness and diversity in the experiences of children and adolescents in postwar Canada that resists simplistic… more Full Text: Growing Up in Postwar Suburbia: Childhood, Children and Adolescents in Canada, 1950-1970 A Dissertation Submitted to the Committee on Graduate Studies in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Faculty of Arts …
