Veronica Strong-Boag, Ph.D

Doctor of Philosophy

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, FRSC (born in Prestwick

Prestwick

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, Scotland

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 in 1947) is a Canadian historian specializing in the modern history of women and children in Canada. She is currently Professor of Women's History at The University of British Columbia. Having obtained her BA in history from The University of Toronto in 1970, she went on to receive an MA from Carleton University

Carleton University

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 in 1971, and a PhD from The University of Toronto in 1975. Her PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Professor

Professor

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 Michael Bliss

Michael Bliss

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, was subsequently published as The Parliament of Women. In 1988 she won the John A. Macdonald Prize (awarded to the best book in Canadian History) for her study of the lives of women in Canada between the wars, entitled The New Day Recalled. In 1993-94 she served as president of the Canadian Historical Association

Canadian Historical Association

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. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada

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in 2001.

Selected bibliography

• The Parliament of Women: The National Council of Women of Canada, 1893-1929 (Ottawa: National Museum, 1976).
• The New Day Recalled: Lives of Girls and Women in English Canada 1919-1939 (Toronto: Copp, Clark, Pitman and Penguin Books, 1988).
• ‘Janey Canuck’: Women in Canada Between Two World Wars, 1919-1939 (CHA Historical Booklet, 1994).
• A History of the Canadian Peoples, Volume 2: 1867 to the Present (Toronto: Copp Clark Pitman, 1993) with Margaret Conrad and Alvin Finkel.
• Paddling Her Own Canoe: The Times and Texts of E. Pauline Johnson (Tekahionwake) (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000) with Carole Gerson.
• Finding Families, Finding Ourselves: English Canada Confronts Adoption from the 19th Century to the 1990s (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 2006).
• Fostering Nation? Canada Confronts Its History of Childhood Disadvantage (Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010).