Cynthia Comacchio is a professor in the Department of History at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario. Her previous publications include "Nations Are Built of Babies: Saving Ontarios Mothers and Children, 1900 to 1940" and "The Infinite Bonds of Family: Domesticity in Canada, 1850 to 1940". With Elizabeth Jane Errington, she edited "People, Places and Times: Topics in Canadian Social History", vol. 1: "Pre-Confederation" and vol. 2: "Post-Confederation".