New Horizons for Canada's Children/Horizons Nouveaux pour les Enfants du Canada : Proceedings of the first Canadian Conference on Children/Deliberations de la premiere Conference Canadienna de l'Enfance

The first Canadian Conference on Children, held in the province of Quebec in October, 1960, was the culmination of several years of planning and of three years' specific study of projects which dealt with existing programmes for children in Canada. Delegates came from provincial and national organizations and the Conference was supported by a large number of organizations connected with child health, welfare, and education. The programme of the Conference was divided into three sections: plenary sessions, group discussions of the projects, and group discussion of children under three headings: "the early years," "the middle years," and "the transition years." The whole programme covered children from birth to about the age of seventeen. The Proceedings includes the speeches presented at the plenary sessions (by Sir Geoffrey Vickers, Chairman of the Research Committee of the British Mental Health Research Fund; Dr. K.D. Naegele of the University of British Columbia; and Dr. Otto Klineberg of Columbia University); and valuable summaries of discussions by Dr. Murray Ross (York University), Mgr. Irénée Lussier (Université de Montréal), and Dr. N.A.M. MacKenzie (University of British Columbia). Foreword 5 Avant-propos 7 Contents 9 Table des Matières 10 Introduction 11 Introduction 12 Opening Remarks. The Honourable J. Waldo Monteith, F.C.A. Minister Of National Health And Welfare 13 Allocution Prononcee Par. L'honorable J. Waldo Monteith, F.C.A. Ministre De La Sante Nationale Et Du Bien-Etre Social 16 Opening Remarks. The Honourable Emilien Lafrance Minister Of Social Welfare, Province Of Quebec 19 Allocution Prononcee Par. L'honorable Emilien Lafrance Ministre Du Bien-Etre Social, Province De Quebec 21 Addresses / Discours 24 What Do We Owe the Children 24 Children in Canada—Present and Past 39 A Cross-Cultural View of the Child and the Family 51 Project Discussion Groups / Comites De Projets 116 Project Discussion Groups 116 Comités De Projets 126 Group Sessions: Summaries / Seances Des Groupes: Resumes 140 Chairman's Remarks 140 The Early Years 141 The Middle Years 149 The Transition Years 156 Allocution Du President 159 Le Jeune Age 160 L'Age Moyen 169 L'adolescence 176 Closing Address / Discours De Cloture 182 Closing Address 182 Discours De Clôture 189 Epilogue 197 Appendixes / Appendices 198