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Charity and public welfare in history: A look at Ontario, 1830–1950

Several historical works have described 19th-century Ontario as lacking a conception of public welfare, where the poor were largely left to the benevolence of religious charities. This assumption, however, ignores the complex web of relationships that characterized the delivery of social services in Ontario and in many English-speaking regions across Canada.

From the Editor

Canadians have become less generous. This disturbing conclusion emerges un­mistakably from this issue’s study by Hans Deeg, How and What Canadians Contribute to Charity and