Household counts : Canadian households and families in 1901 / edited by Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville.

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Book
Language
English
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Toronto ; Buffalo (N.Y.) : University of Toronto Press, ©2007.
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485 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

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    "The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it was a fluid micro-social community through which people lived and moved. There was no one "traditional" family, but rather many types of families and households, each with its own history ... to explore the demographic context of families in Canada using the 1901 census. Split into five sections, the collection covers such topics as family demography, urban families, the young and old, family and social history, and smaller groups as well. The remarkable plasticity of family and household that Household Counts reveals is of critical importance to our understanding of nation-building in Canada. This collection not only makes an important contribution to family history, but also to the widening intellectual exploration of historical censuses."--Pub. description.
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    Includes bibliographical references and index.
    Contents
    • Transitions in household and family structure : Canada in 1901 and 1991 / Stacie D.A. Burke
    • Canadian fertility in 1901 : a bird's-eye view / Peter Gossage, Danielle Gauvreau
    • Family geographies : a national perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen
    • Family geographies : an urban perspective / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen
    • Rural to urban migration : finding house hold complexity in a New World environment / Kenneth M. Sylvester
    • Family geographies : Montreal, Canada's metropolis / Larry McCann, Ian Buck, Ole Heggen
    • Families, fostering and flying the coop : lessons in liberal cultural formation, 1871-1901 / Gordon Darroch
    • Canadian children who lived with one parent in 1901 / Bettina Bradbury
    • Boundaries of age : exploring the patterns of young-old age among men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901 / Lisa Dillon
    • Inequality, earnings, and the Canadian working class in 1901 / Eric W. Sager
    • 'Leaving God behind when they crossed the Rocky Mountains' : exploring unbelief in turn-of-the-century British Columbia / Lynne Marks
    • Giving birth : families and the medical marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901 / Peter Baskerville
    • Language, ancestry, and the competing constructions of identity in turn-of-the-century Canada / Chad Gaffield
    • Constructing normality and confronting deviance : familial ideologies, household structures, and divorce in the 1901 Canadian census / Annalee Lepp.
    ISBN
    • 9780802038609 ((bound))
    • 0802038603 ((bound))
    • 9780802038029 ((pbk.))
    • 0802038026 ((pbk.))
    LCCN
    2007619342
    OCLC
    64670518
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