MONTIGNY, Edgar-André 1965-

PERSONAL: Born March 17, 1965, in South Porcupine, Ontario, Canada; son of Edgar-Joseph (a police officer) and Verna (Walters) Montigny; companion of Roger P. Gibbs. Ethnicity: "French-Canadian/Irish/Scot." Education: University of Ottawa, B.A. (with honors), 1988, Ph.D., 1994; University of Toronto, M.A., 1989, postdoctoral study, 2000—.

ADDRESSES: Agent—c/o University of Toronto Press, 10 St. Mary St., Suite 700, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M4Y 2W8. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: Law Society of Upper Canada, archives researcher, 1990-91; University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, faculty member, 1993-96; Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, postdoctoral research fellow, 1995-97, part-time member of faculty, 1996-99; Downtown Legal Services, Toronto, Ontario, caseworker, 2001—. Part-time faculty member at Scarborough College, 1995-2000, Ryerson University, 1996-2000, University of Toronto, 1998-2001, Wilfrid Laurier University, 1999-2000, and University of Guelph, 2000. Hannah Institute for the History of Medicine, researcher and member of advisory board for medical archives research project, 1994; Public History, Inc., researcher for native demographic project, 1998, and Law Commission of Canada project, 1999. City of Toronto, member of Mayor's Committee on Aging, 1992-93; Central Neighbourhood House, member of home support advisory committee, 1994-97; Neighbourhood Legal Services, member of board of directors, 1995-99.

AWARDS, HONORS: Fellow, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 1995-97.

WRITINGS:

Foisted upon the Government? State Responsibilities,Family Obligations, and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario, McGill-Queen's University Press (Montreal, Quebec, Canada), 1998.

(Editor, with Lori Chambers, and contributor) FamilyMatters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History, Canadian Scholar's Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1998.

(Editor, with Lori Chambers, and contributor) Ontario since Confederation: A Reader, University of Toronto Press (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 2000.

Contributor to books, including The Welfare State in Canada: Past, Present, and Future, edited by R. Blake, P. Bryden, and J. Strain, Irwin Publishing (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), 1997. Contributor of articles and reviews to academic journals, including Ageing and Society, Journal of Social History, and Canadian Bulletin of Medical History. Guest coeditor of special issue, Journal of Canadian Studies, 1999.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

periodicals

Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology, August, 1999, Nancy Bowes, review of Foisted upon the Government? State Responsibilities, Family Obligations, and the Care of the Dependent Aged in Late Nineteenth-Century Ontario, p. 456.

Journal of Family History, April, 2000, Joan Sangster, review of Family Matters: Papers in Post-Confederation Canadian Family History, p. 257.

Journal of Interdisciplinary History, summer, 1999, Peter Baskerville, review of Foisted upon the Government?, p. 160.