Contents -- The Canadian Social History Series -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Sources -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: The Public School Movement in Upper Canada and Ontario -- 1 Human and Child Nature: The Search for Perfection -- 2 Upper Canada at Mid-Century: The Necessity of Progress -- 3 Education and the Creation of a Respectable Class -- 4 Occupations in Transition: The Danger of Downward Mobility -- 5 The Integration and Invigoration of the Labouring Classes and the Poor -- 6 Class and the Schools
7 Nature, Order and National Education: The Government as ParentIndex -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y