Household Counts : : Canadian Households and Families in 1901 / / Peter Baskerville, Eric W. Sager.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
• TeilnehmendeR: Baskerville, Peter,; Sager, Eric W.,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

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.In Household Counts, editors Eric W. Sager and Peter Baskerville bring together an impressive array of scholars 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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- Introduction / Sager, Eric W. / Baskerville, Peter -- PART ONE: FAMILY DEMOGRAPHY: CANADA, 1901 -- 1. Transitions in Household and Family Structure: Canada in 1901 and 1991 / Burke, Stacie D.A. -- 2. Canadian Fertility in 1901: A Bird's-Eye View / Gossage, Peter / Gauvreau, Danielle -- 3. Family Geographies: A National Perspective / Mccann, Larry / Buck, Ian / Heggen, Ole -- PART TWO: URBAN FAMILIES -- 4. Family Geographies: An Urban Perspective / Mccann, Larry / Buck, Ian / Heggen, Ole -- 5. Rural to Urban Migration: Finding Household Complexity in a New World Environment / Sylvester, Kenneth M. -- 6. Family Geographies: Montreal, Canada's Metropolis / Mccann, Larry / Buck, Ian / Heggen, Ole -- PART THREE: THE YOUNG AND THE OLD -- 7. Families, Fostering, and Flying the Coop: Lessons in Liberal Cultural Formation, 1871-1901 / Darroch, Gordon -- 8. Canadian Children Who Lived with One Parent in 1901 / Bradbury, Bettina -- 9. Boundaries of Age: Exploring the Patterns of Young-Old Age among Men, Canada and the United States, 1870-1901 / Dillon, Lisa -- PART FOUR: NEW INTERPRETATIONS: FAMILY AND SOCIAL HISTORY -- 10. Inequality, Earnings, and the Canadian Working Class in 1901 / Sager, Eric W. -- 11. 'Leaving God Behind When They Crossed the Rocky Mountains': Exploring Unbelief in Turn-of-the-Century British Columbia / Marks, Lynne -- 12. Giving Birth: Families and the Medical Marketplace in Victoria, British Columbia, 1880-1901 / Baskerville, Peter -- PART FIVE: THE IMPORTANCE OF CULTURAL CONTEXT -- 13. Language, Ancestry, and the Competing Constructions of Identity in Turn-of-the-Century Canada / Gaffield, Chad -- 14. Constructing Normality and Confronting Deviance: Familial Ideologies, Household Structures, and Divorce in the 1901 Canadian Census / Lepp, Annalee -- Index