The best introductions to the juvenile immigration movement are Neil Sutherland, Children in English-Canadian Society: Framing the twentieth-century Consensus (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1976) and Ivy Pinchbeck and Margaret Hewitt, Children In English Society, Volume 2 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1973). Two studies of British communities, Robert Roberts, The Classic Slum, Salford Life In the First Quarter of the Century (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin, 1973; a paperback edition) and Ronald Blythe, Akenfield, Portrait of an English Village (Harmondsworth, Middlesex: The Penguin Press, 1969; a paperback edition) describe the world child immigrants left when they came to Canada. Two general histories of immigration, Norman Macdonald, Canada: Immigration and Colonisation, 1841-1903 (Toronto: MacMillan, 1970, c1966) and William A. Carrothers, Emigration from the British Isles, with Special Reference to the Development of the Overseas Dominions (London: P.S. King and Son, 1929) set the transportation of children in the context of wider British-Canadian movements, but neither are as trustworthy as Pinchbeck and Hewitt or Sutherland in matters of detail.
Interesting documents pertaining to juvenile immigration are reprinted in Alison L. Prentice and Susan E. Houston, eds., Family School and Society in nineteenth-century Canada (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975) and Lewis G. Thomas, ed., The Prairie West to 1905, A Canadian Sourcebook (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1975).
Two other sets in the Canada's Visual History series might be used in conjunction with the discussion of child immigrants: Harvey J. Graff and Alison Prentice, Children and Schools in Nineteenth-Century Canada and Donald Avery, Immigration to Western Canada, 1896-1914.
