Charlotte Neff
Biographic Data
| ID | 4089401 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Charlotte Neff |
| GIVEN NAMES | Charlotte |
| FAMILY NAME | Neff |
| SIGNATURE | NEFF C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Laurentian University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Armstrongs of Manorhamilton and West Gwillimbury
This article considers the land transactions, occupations, and last known residence of three brothers, Protestant landed gentry from Manorhamilton, Leitrim County, Ireland, who arrived in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1819, 1822, and 1825, and of their sons, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. At least one aspired to a large estate, but none acquired more land than they needed for themselves and their sons. Most of their …
Use of Indentures by the Kingston (Ontario) Orphans’ Home 1876–1894
In December 1876, the Kingston Orphans’ Home adopted an indenture form to be used for children placed out in private homes. From December 12, 1876, to May 31, 1894, 140 children were placed on their first discharge from the Home, but only 77 were apparently indentured. The background and experiences of the two groups and of children placed by the Home from 1857 to 1876, as recorded in the Home’s records and in Census, birth, marriage, and death r…
Placement Practices of the Kingston (Ontario) Orphans’ Home, 1857–1876
From mid-century until 1893, children’s homes like the Kingston Orphans’ Home were the primary providers of care and protection to destitute and neglected children in Ontario. About one-third of the children admitted were returned to family, but more than half were placed in private homes when discharged. Establishing good placement procedures was therefore a priority and a primary motivation for the founding of the Home. One hundred thirty-five …
Ontario Government Funding and Supervision of Infants’ Homes 1875–1893
Prior to 1893, the Ontario government did not accept direct responsibility for the care of neglected and dependent infants. However, charitable infants’ homes received government grants for the infants and for their nursing mothers, and from 1874 were inspected annually or twice annually. Most of these infants were illegitimate, most of their mothers were poor, and many were in poor physical condition, and thus their chances of survival outside s…
The Role of the Toronto Girls’ Home, 1863—1910
It has been suggested that the role of Ontario children’s homes, who had for half a century been helping disadvantaged children, changed significantly and immediately under the Children’s Protection Act of 1893. However, the records of the girls admitted to Toronto Girls’ Home from 1863 to 1910 suggest that this was not the case, for this home at least. For most of their history, their core clientele was the children of poor respectable parents d…
The Role of Protestant Children's Homes in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
The Children's Protection Act of 1893 introduced Ontario's first full-fledged child protection scheme. However, for half a century, children's homes had been helping disadvantaged children, and they played a key role in the evolution of an empathetic child-protection system. During the course of the nineteenth century, the provincial government had increasingly accepted responsibility for disadvantaged children and had developed legislative defin…
Government Approaches to Child Neglect and Mistreatment in Nineteenth-century Ontario
En 1893, l'Ontario a mis sur pied son premier système complet de protection de l'enfance. La notion de négligence et la présomption de responsabilité sociale et gouvernementale à l'endroit des enfants défavorisés n'étaient toutefois pas nouvelles, ayant évolué durant le premier siècle d'existence de l'Ontario. En 1874, la législation donnait une description claire et précise de ce qu'était un enfant ayant besoin de protection et un parent déficie…
The Children's Friend Society in Upper Canada, 1833-1837
Large scale, open immigration of unaccompanied dependent children to Canada did not commence until 1869, but it had been advocated for decades and some such immigration to the British North American colonies took place earlier in the century. The first systematic emigration of destitute British children was organized in the 1830s by the Children's Friend Society, which sent about 141 children to the Canadas from 1833 to 1836, at least 70 of whom …
The Education of Destitute Homeless Children in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
From the earliest years in Upper Canada, destitute homeless children, including orphans, were often placed in private homes under pauper apprenticeship indentures that required that the children receive an education. Beginning in the 1830s, such children were sometimes housed in temporary institutions awaiting private placements, and by midcentury these institutions also began to provide schooling. However, children’s homes providing long-term ca…
Youth in Canada West
From 1854 to 1868, ninety-eight boys age fourteen to twenty voluntarily emigrated from the reformatory farm school at Red Hill, England, to Canada West. Volunteer correspondents and earlier immigrants assisted them on arrival and found them positions. While most accepted these positions, they determined their own employment terms, which were subject to employment law and not the law governing pauper apprentices, as was standard for younger immigr…
Pauper Apprenticeship in Early Nineteenth Century Ontario
The primary formal mechanism for dealing with orphaned and abandoned chil dren in Ontario before Confederation was apprenticeship. This legally recognized form of home placement originated in the English PoorLaw and was provided for in provincial legislation in 1799 and, in detail, in 1851, as well as in a Toronto municipal statute in 1846, despite the rejection by Ontario of the English Poor Law. Surviving apprenticeship indentures and court rec…
Scandinavian elements in the Wantage code of Æthelred II
Pauper Apprenticeship in Early Nineteenth Century Ontario
The primary formal mechanism for dealing with orphaned and abandoned chil dren in Ontario before Confederation was apprenticeship. This legally recognized form of home placement originated in the English PoorLaw and was provided for in provincial legislation in 1799 and, in detail, in 1851, as well as in a Toronto municipal statute in 1846, despite the rejection by Ontario of the English Poor Law. Surviving apprenticeship indentures and court rec…
Scandinavian elements in the Wantage code of Æthelred II
The Children's Friend Society in Upper Canada, 1833-1837
Large scale, open immigration of unaccompanied dependent children to Canada did not commence until 1869, but it had been advocated for decades and some such immigration to the British North American colonies took place earlier in the century. The first systematic emigration of destitute British children was organized in the 1830s by the Children's Friend Society, which sent about 141 children to the Canadas from 1833 to 1836, at least 70 of whom …
The Education of Destitute Homeless Children in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
From the earliest years in Upper Canada, destitute homeless children, including orphans, were often placed in private homes under pauper apprenticeship indentures that required that the children receive an education. Beginning in the 1830s, such children were sometimes housed in temporary institutions awaiting private placements, and by midcentury these institutions also began to provide schooling. However, children’s homes providing long-term ca…
Youth in Canada West
From 1854 to 1868, ninety-eight boys age fourteen to twenty voluntarily emigrated from the reformatory farm school at Red Hill, England, to Canada West. Volunteer correspondents and earlier immigrants assisted them on arrival and found them positions. While most accepted these positions, they determined their own employment terms, which were subject to employment law and not the law governing pauper apprentices, as was standard for younger immigr…
Scandinavian elements in the Wantage code of Æthelred II
Pauper Apprenticeship in Early Nineteenth Century Ontario
The primary formal mechanism for dealing with orphaned and abandoned chil dren in Ontario before Confederation was apprenticeship. This legally recognized form of home placement originated in the English PoorLaw and was provided for in provincial legislation in 1799 and, in detail, in 1851, as well as in a Toronto municipal statute in 1846, despite the rejection by Ontario of the English Poor Law. Surviving apprenticeship indentures and court rec…
Youth in Canada West
From 1854 to 1868, ninety-eight boys age fourteen to twenty voluntarily emigrated from the reformatory farm school at Red Hill, England, to Canada West. Volunteer correspondents and earlier immigrants assisted them on arrival and found them positions. While most accepted these positions, they determined their own employment terms, which were subject to employment law and not the law governing pauper apprentices, as was standard for younger immigr…
The Education of Destitute Homeless Children in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
From the earliest years in Upper Canada, destitute homeless children, including orphans, were often placed in private homes under pauper apprenticeship indentures that required that the children receive an education. Beginning in the 1830s, such children were sometimes housed in temporary institutions awaiting private placements, and by midcentury these institutions also began to provide schooling. However, children’s homes providing long-term ca…
The Children's Friend Society in Upper Canada, 1833-1837
Large scale, open immigration of unaccompanied dependent children to Canada did not commence until 1869, but it had been advocated for decades and some such immigration to the British North American colonies took place earlier in the century. The first systematic emigration of destitute British children was organized in the 1830s by the Children's Friend Society, which sent about 141 children to the Canadas from 1833 to 1836, at least 70 of whom …
Government Approaches to Child Neglect and Mistreatment in Nineteenth-century Ontario
En 1893, l'Ontario a mis sur pied son premier système complet de protection de l'enfance. La notion de négligence et la présomption de responsabilité sociale et gouvernementale à l'endroit des enfants défavorisés n'étaient toutefois pas nouvelles, ayant évolué durant le premier siècle d'existence de l'Ontario. En 1874, la législation donnait une description claire et précise de ce qu'était un enfant ayant besoin de protection et un parent déficie…
The Role of Protestant Children's Homes in Nineteenth-Century Ontario
The Children's Protection Act of 1893 introduced Ontario's first full-fledged child protection scheme. However, for half a century, children's homes had been helping disadvantaged children, and they played a key role in the evolution of an empathetic child-protection system. During the course of the nineteenth century, the provincial government had increasingly accepted responsibility for disadvantaged children and had developed legislative defin…
The Role of the Toronto Girls’ Home, 1863—1910
It has been suggested that the role of Ontario children’s homes, who had for half a century been helping disadvantaged children, changed significantly and immediately under the Children’s Protection Act of 1893. However, the records of the girls admitted to Toronto Girls’ Home from 1863 to 1910 suggest that this was not the case, for this home at least. For most of their history, their core clientele was the children of poor respectable parents d…
Ontario Government Funding and Supervision of Infants’ Homes 1875–1893
Prior to 1893, the Ontario government did not accept direct responsibility for the care of neglected and dependent infants. However, charitable infants’ homes received government grants for the infants and for their nursing mothers, and from 1874 were inspected annually or twice annually. Most of these infants were illegitimate, most of their mothers were poor, and many were in poor physical condition, and thus their chances of survival outside s…
Placement Practices of the Kingston (Ontario) Orphans’ Home, 1857–1876
From mid-century until 1893, children’s homes like the Kingston Orphans’ Home were the primary providers of care and protection to destitute and neglected children in Ontario. About one-third of the children admitted were returned to family, but more than half were placed in private homes when discharged. Establishing good placement procedures was therefore a priority and a primary motivation for the founding of the Home. One hundred thirty-five …
Use of Indentures by the Kingston (Ontario) Orphans’ Home 1876–1894
In December 1876, the Kingston Orphans’ Home adopted an indenture form to be used for children placed out in private homes. From December 12, 1876, to May 31, 1894, 140 children were placed on their first discharge from the Home, but only 77 were apparently indentured. The background and experiences of the two groups and of children placed by the Home from 1857 to 1876, as recorded in the Home’s records and in Census, birth, marriage, and death r…
The Armstrongs of Manorhamilton and West Gwillimbury
This article considers the land transactions, occupations, and last known residence of three brothers, Protestant landed gentry from Manorhamilton, Leitrim County, Ireland, who arrived in West Gwillimbury, Simcoe County, Upper Canada (Ontario) in 1819, 1822, and 1825, and of their sons, sons-in-law, and grandchildren. At least one aspired to a large estate, but none acquired more land than they needed for themselves and their sons. Most of their …
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