RESEARCH & FACULTY
Charlotte Neff
Charlotte Neff
Full ProfessorLaw and Justice
Humanities and Social Sciences
cneff@laurentian.ca
A310
Sudbury Campus
Publications
- “Ontario Government Funding and Supervision of Infants’ Homes 1875–1893.” Journal of Family History, vol. 38, no. 1 (January 2013) pp. 17 - 54. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/38/1/17.abstract
- “Role of the Toronto Girls’ Home 1863 to 1910.” Journal of Family History, vol. 36, no. 3 (July 2011), pp. 286-315. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/36/3/286.abstract
- “The Role of Protestant Children's Homes in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Child Rescue or Family Support?” Journal of Family History, vol. 34, no. 1 (Jan. 2009), pp. 48-88. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/34/1/48.abstract
- “Government Approaches to Child Neglect and Mistreatment in 19th Century Ontario.” Histoire Sociale / Social History, vol. 41, no. 81 (May 2008), pp. 165-214. http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/his/summary/v041/41.81.neff.html
- "The Children's Friend Society in Upper Canada, 1833-1842." Journal of Family History, vol. 32, no. 3 (July 2007): 234-258. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/32/3/234.abstract
- “The Education of Destitute Homeless Children in Nineteenth Century Ontario” ” Journal of Family History, vol. 29 no. 1 (January 2004): 3-46. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/29/1/3.abstract
- "Youth in Canada West: A Case Study of Red Hill Farm School Emigrants, 1854-1868." Journal of Family History, vol. 25, no. 4 (October 2000): 432-490. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/25/4/432.abstract
- “The Use of Apprenticeship and Adoption by the Toronto Protestant Orphans' Home 1853-1869.” Histoire Sociale / Social History, volume XXX (no. 60, Nov. 1997) 334-385. http://pi.library.yorku.ca/ojs/index.php/hssh/article/viewFile/4705/3899
- “Pauper Apprenticeship in Pre-confederation Ontario.” Journal of Family History, volume 21 no. 2 (April 1996): 144-171. http://jfh.sagepub.com/content/21/2/144.abstract
- "The Ontario Industrial Schools Act of 1874." Canadian Journal of Family Law, volume 12, no. 1 (March 1994): 171-208.
Education
- B.A., History (Waterloo Lutheran University), 1969.
- J.D. (Osgoode Hall Law School), 1972.
- M.A., Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic Studies (Cambridge University, England), 1976. Dissertation: Scandinavian Elements in the Wantage Code of Æthelred II. The Journal of Legal History, Vol. 10, No. 3, December 1989: 285 to 313.
- Ph.D., History, (University of Kent, England) 1982. Thesis: Parties to Court Actions in Saga Age Iceland (930-1030AD)
- Member of the Ontario Bar. Called 1974.
Research Focus
My research focuses on child protection in 19th Century Ontario, including the extent of government involvement prior to 1893, the role of children’s homes (orphanages), primarily Protestant Homes, and the use of private home placements. I am currently researching the placement practices of the Kingston Orphans' Home from 1857 to 1893. My research on Protestant children’s homes involves collecting all available information about each child admitted, particularly those placed out in private homes on discharge, including information in the Homes’ Registers and Minutes, and census, birth, marriage and death information available on the internet.
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