New Brunswick before the Equal Opportunity Program : history through a social work lens / Laurel Lewey, Louis J. Richard, and Linda Turner.

Introduction
A history of the peoples of New Brunswick
Historical, economic, and political contexts of service provision
Poor law legislation and the poverty experience
Origins and development of social care agencies and networks
The evolution of child welfare
A portrait of New Brunswick's earliest social workers
The first Acadian social workers
Social workers experience child welfare : view from the trenches
Ushering in equal opportunity
Conclusion.