Deaf Education, the Politics of Humanitarianism, and State Formation in Saskatchewan and Alberta, 1880-1931
Sandy Barron
This study traces the development of deaf education in Alberta and Saskatchewan between 1880 1931 its corresponding effects on state formation Western Canada. Through this topic, it identifies a rise politics wake First World War that achieved notable successes interwar period. A new term for discussing oppressive attitudes against communities from hearing people, humanitarianism, is proposed explored. These provinces took decades to develop institutions were meant ensure "productive" "independent" futures children burgeoning nineteenth-century liberal colonial order Prairies. In doing so, they began define their own provincial boundaries, both sense geography responsibility. They also theoretical boundaries deafness hearing, intellectual ability disability, as well rights humanitarian assistance. The Saskatchewan, I argue, pushed emergent accept youth education, though process was uneven did not represent straight teleological arch. Deaf associations individuals themselves leadership roles process, making them heretofore unrecognized political agents search rights. Chapters include considerations an instrument settler colonialism, histories families with children, role played by Manitoba School marking disability three Prairie provinces, Canadian Association founding 1931.