W P J Millar

Biographic Data

ID	1037059
NAME	W P J Millar
GIVEN NAMES	W P J
FAMILY NAME	Millar
SIGNATURE	MILLAR W P J
AFFILIATIONS	London, Ontario
VERIFIED	No
TOTAL WORKS	10
TOTAL CITATIONS	12
AUTHOR COUNT	10
EDITOR COUNT	0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR	1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR	2018
H-INDEX	2

Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity by Robert C. Vipond
Open AccessW P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review2018
How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940
R D Gidney, W P J MillarBOOKHow Schools Worked2012
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, children in English Canada encountered schools and school systems profoundly different from today's. In How Schools Worked, R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar map the contours of that world, retrieving it from the obscurity created not only by the passage of time but by fundamental shifts in organization, pedagogical values, and beliefs about the role of public education. Moving beyond the rhetoric on school reform tha…
Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly
W P J Millar, Richard White et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2001
The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) published in 1957 a book called Daylight Through the Mountain, which contains an account of the lives and letters of the Shanly brothers, edited by Frank Walker and researched by Gladys Walker. As the Walkers noted, Walter Shanly was at the age of forty the general manager of the longest railway in the world and was later to sit as a member of Parliament, while Frank Shanly built more miles of railway in …
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Nicole Neatby, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
John Taylor, John H Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1996
Journal Article Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Get access Gidney R.D. Millar W.P.J., eds., Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xv, 505 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John H. Taylor John H. Taylor Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970
W P J Millar, Mary KinnearARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 5
Kinnear presents five case studies of professional women in Manitoba: university teachers, physicians, lawyers, nurses, and schoolteachers. Although the unrelenting efforts of nineteenth-century feminists won women access to higher education and the professions, the author reveals that most women, whether in male- or female-dominated professions, were forced to accept subordinate positions. They responded with acquiescence, indifference, resentme…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
David G Burley, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 6
What distinguishes professions from other occupations? How and why does the meaning of profession or professional work change over time? These are the questions that animate Professional Gentlemen, the first comprehensive account of the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario. Beginning with the three traditional 'learned professions, ' law, divinity, and medicine, Professional Gentlemen first examines their establishment in the Upper Canadian …
The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
R D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLEJournal of the History of…1994
R. D. GIDNEY, W. P. J. MILLAR; The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding
Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Alison Prentice, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1991Cited by: 1
From Voluntarism to State Schooling: The Creation of the Public School System in Ontario
Open AccessR D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review1985

From Voluntarism to State Schooling: The Creation of the Public School System in Ontario
Open AccessR D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review1985
Inventing Secondary Education: The Rise of the High School in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Alison Prentice, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1991Cited by: 1
The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding of the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Toronto
R D Gidney, W P J MillarARTICLEJournal of the History of…1994
R. D. GIDNEY, W. P. J. MILLAR; The Reorientation of Medical Education in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario: The Proprietary Medical Schools and the Founding
In Subordination: Professional Women, 1870-1970
W P J Millar, Mary KinnearARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 5
Kinnear presents five case studies of professional women in Manitoba: university teachers, physicians, lawyers, nurses, and schoolteachers. Although the unrelenting efforts of nineteenth-century feminists won women access to higher education and the professions, the author reveals that most women, whether in male- or female-dominated professions, were forced to accept subordinate positions. They responded with acquiescence, indifference, resentme…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
David G Burley, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail1995Cited by: 6
What distinguishes professions from other occupations? How and why does the meaning of profession or professional work change over time? These are the questions that animate Professional Gentlemen, the first comprehensive account of the professions in nineteenth-century Ontario. Beginning with the three traditional 'learned professions, ' law, divinity, and medicine, Professional Gentlemen first examines their establishment in the Upper Canadian …
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
John Taylor, John H Taylor et al.ARTICLEAmerican Journal of Legal History1996
Journal Article Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario Get access Gidney R.D. Millar W.P.J., eds., Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1994. xv, 505 pp. $60.00 (cloth); $24.95 (paper). John H. Taylor John H. Taylor Carleton University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar American Journal of Legal History, Vol…
Professional Gentlemen: The Professions in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
Nicole Neatby, R D Gidney et al.ARTICLEHistory of Education Quarterly1997
Gentlemen Engineers: The Working Lives of Frank and Walter Shanly
W P J Millar, Richard White et al.ARTICLELabour / Le Travail2001
The Engineering Institute of Canada (EIC) published in 1957 a book called Daylight Through the Mountain, which contains an account of the lives and letters of the Shanly brothers, edited by Frank Walker and researched by Gladys Walker. As the Walkers noted, Walter Shanly was at the age of forty the general manager of the longest railway in the world and was later to sit as a member of Parliament, while Frank Shanly built more miles of railway in …
How Schools Worked: Public Education in English Canada, 1900-1940
R D Gidney, W P J MillarBOOKHow Schools Worked2012
Between the 1880s and the 1940s, children in English Canada encountered schools and school systems profoundly different from today's. In How Schools Worked, R.D. Gidney and W.P.J. Millar map the contours of that world, retrieving it from the obscurity created not only by the passage of time but by fundamental shifts in organization, pedagogical values, and beliefs about the role of public education. Moving beyond the rhetoric on school reform tha…
Making a Global City: How One Toronto School Embraced Diversity by Robert C. Vipond
Open AccessW P J MillarARTICLECanadian Historical Review2018