Household Counts : Canadian Households and Families in 1901.

This collection not only makes an important contribution to family history, but also to the widening intellectual exploration of historical censuses.

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Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Main Author: Baskerville, Peter
Other Authors: Sager, Eric W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 2007
Edition:2nd ed.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Contributors
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE: FAMILY DEMOGRAPHY: CANADA, 1901
  • 1 Transitions in Household and Family Structure: Canada in 1901 and 1991
  • 2 Canadian Fertility in 1901: A Bird's-Eye View
  • 3 Family Geographies: A National Perspective
  • PART TWO: URBAN FAMILIES
  • 4 Family Geographies: An Urban Perspective
  • 5 Rural to Urban Migration: Finding Household Complexity in a New World Environment
  • 6 Family Geographies: Montreal, Canada's Metropolis
  • PART THREE: THE YOUNG AND THE OLD
  • 7 Families, Fostering, and Flying the Coop: Lessons in Liberal Cultural Formation, 1871-1901
  • 8 Canadian Children Who Lived with One Parent in 1901
  • 9 Boundaries of Age: Exploring the Patterns of Young-Old Age among Men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901
  • PART FOUR: NEW INTERPRETATIONS: FAMILY AND SOCIAL HISTORY
  • 10 Inequality, Earnings, and the Canadian Working Class in 1901
  • 11 'Leaving God Behind When They Crossed the Rocky Mountains': Exploring Unbelief in Turn-of-the-Century British Columbia
  • 12 Giving Birth: Families and the Medical Marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901
  • PART FIVE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL CONTEXT
  • 13 Language, Ancestry, and the Competing Constructions of Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Canada
  • 14 Constructing Normality and Confronting Deviance: Familial Ideologies, Household Structures, and Divorce in the 1901 Canadian Census
  • Index
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