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...Apprentices to Canada, 1869-1924, Joy Parr (1994) is attempting to illustrate the ways in which child employment laws have developed from a number of differing cultures. The first chapter deals with British Working Children while the seventh chapter is dedicated to exploring the lives of Canadian children of pioneering families. The subtitle for the article on British Working Children is 'England does not know what childhood is'. Parr is plainly arguing that the children that 'immigrated' to Canada via "Philanthropic rescue homes" (14) were victims of a 'poverty cycle' that left them defenseless against the socio-economic disability of their family life....