Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following:
Cover portrait: W. J. Topley/National Archives of Canada, detail, colourized PA 151708.
Cover background: National Archives of Canada, colourized PA 41785.
1: Courtesy of Woodland Publishing and Gail Corbett, from Barnardo Children in Canada.
2: National Archives of Canada C-019313.
3: National Archives of Canada C-028727.
4: Courtesy of Alfred Crane and Kitchener Record.
5: Barnardo’s Photographic Archive.
6, 7 and 8: City Archives/Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives.
9: Courtesy of author.
10: National Archives of Canada 103121.
11: “Monday’s Child”, Anonymous.
12: Courtesy of Ailsa Little.
13: © 1999 WATKINS: HEALTHIER LIVING SINCE 1868
14 and 15: Maps by Paul Heersink/Paperglyphs. Map data © 2000 Government of Canada with permission from Natural Resources Canada.
Thanks to Barbara Hehner for her careful checking of the manuscript, and to Dr. Joy Parr, author of Labouring Children, for her historical expertise.