Gaffield, Chad2015-04-272015-04-2719911991Canadian Historical Review, vol. LXXII, no.2, 1991: 157-191.http://hdl.handle.net/10393/32285Why did children go to school in increasingly proportions during the nineteenth-century? This essay examines research findings as a foundation for re-interpreting how schooling became a characteristic experience of growing-up in Ontario. By connecting inheritance patterns, fertility trends and economic changes, this re-interpretation reconciles the changing diversity of individual and family life with the overall trajectory of schooling during decades of deep social, cultural and economic transformations.enChildrenHistorySchoolingOntarioNineteenth CenturyArticle