User talk:99.229.227.162/CAS(Canada) Timeline

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The History of CAS
1799 - town wardens are empowered to bind orphans to an apprentice.

1827 - local courts are authorized to appoint legal guardians for children without families.

1850 - legislation was passed that stipulated that any city or town could bind, as an apprentice, any minor whose parents were in jail or dependent on public charity. [mid-1800's]

1888 - Lady Ritchie, wife of Chief Justice Ritchie, establishes the Ottawa Humane Society.

they enact the "1893 Act for the Prevention of Cruelty to and Better Protection of Children",

also known as the "Children's Protection Act".

1893 - Children's Aid Society of Ottawa-Carleton established. [December]

population of Carleton County fewer than 40,000.

joins Toronto and Peterborough as the first three children's aid societies in Ontario.

1900 - Ottawa, over 200 children had been brought into care.

130 placed in free foster homes and 20 returned to their natural parents.

remaining children 35 were in various institutions, orphanages and asylums.

[over 15 missing ? 7.5% unaccounted ]

1906 - Ottawa CAS appointed Canada's first juvenile probation officers.

tasks "reforming the children in their homes and, if possible, the home itself".

[increased government involvement]

1913 - CAS appoints person to find, assess and inspect foster homes.

1,000 children in CAS care in previously unmonitored foster homes.

1914 - 1918 [World War I]

1919 - CAS president W.L. Scott

CAS averaged 1.7 visits per child per year

1930 - Ottawa CAS chooses to

"abandon the outworn methods of child care and bring the work of the society in line with modern standards."

1939 - 1945 [World War II]

1950 - more staff, facilities and programs.

1960 -

1970 - new discoveries have a impact on children's aid societies.

contraception, abortion, births, divorce, adoption, and child abuse on the rise.

1975 - Government enacts the Child Welfare Act of 1975

1980 -

1985 -

1990 -

1995 -

2000 -

2005 -

2010 - now.

2015 - [wikipedia is not a crystal ball]