| Description |
1 online resource (344) |
| Summary |
Canada is unique among Western nations in possessing population information dating back almost 400 years. Drawing on this rich background, the book offers a social and institutional account of the evolution of demography in Canada focusing on the period from 1913 to 1995, as the discipline unfolded against the changing cultural, social, and political scene. Augmenting published and unpublished sources with information culled from personalized questionnaires sent to key scholars and practitioners, Sylvia Wargon describes and interprets the development of the field. She provides important background information about the origins and history of demography in Europe and Canada from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and explains the gradual development and institutionalization of demography in the French- and English-speaking regions of Canada. Important milestones are discussed in the context of their social environment. Based on French- and English-language sources, Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century is the first and only comprehensive treatment of the subject to date |
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Demography -- Canada -- History -- 20th century
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Social sciences.
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social sciences.
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Demography
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Social sciences
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1283111659 |
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9781283111652 |
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9780774850148 |
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0774850140 |
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