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Begun in 1891, the Children’s Aid Society of Toronto is the largest child welfare agency in North America.

The Little Immigrants is a tale of compassion and courage and a vivid account of a deep and moving part of Canadian heritage.

This book unmasks one of the greatest human interest stories in Canadian history: the emigration of tens of thousands of children from Britain, from the late 1800s to the early 1900s, to become hom

The late twentieth century witnessed massive human rights violations. What can to done to stop them? How can the root causes be addressed?

When The Ph.D. Trap was first published in 1987, it hit academe like a bombshell.

In 1878, Glasgow shoemaker William Quarrier founded an organization that offered help to the thousands of desperate, poverty-stricken children in Glasgow’s infamous slums.

"I’ve got to stop being so nice." How often has Dr. Evelyn Sommers heard that from her clients over the years?

Voices of the Left Behind contains the personal stories of nearly 50 Canadian war children who have been helped by Project Roots.

"For me, getting older physically seems to be epitomized in the feeling that I look like my mother. She's really attractive ...

Decades of Caring: The Big Sister Story is a record of the trials, errors, and accomplishments of an organization of Toronto women who have carried a torch for youth through good years and bad from

A woman from Northern Ontario is buried; her earthly papers reveal a mystery. Veteran Canadian journalist Jim Poling took on the most important assignment of his career: Just who was his mother?

Toronto is truly a city of communities.

The twenty-first century has brought the perfect storm of conditions to create substantive global instability.

Feasting and Fasting is an introduction to the foods and beverages that were a central part of how our ancestors celebrated important events.

In Africa, every minute of every day, five people die of AIDS and nine more are newly infected.