Contents -- Tables -- Figures -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Illustrations -- Introduction -- 1 Saint-Hyacinthe in Context -- 2 Genesis of an Industrial Town -- 3 To Have and to Hold: Marriage and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe -- 4 Families at the Threshold: Newlyweds, Household Structure, and Proximity to Kin -- 5 Interesting Conditions: Fertility and Family Size in Transition -- 6 Conclusion: The Art of the Possible -- Appendix: Family Formation in Focus: An Essay on Methods -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C
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Summary
"Peter Gossage uses family-reconstitution analysis, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in the context of social and economic change in Saint-Hyacinthe, Quebec. His interpretation of the data is that family formation in Saint-Hyacinthe was profoundly affected as couples adjusted to the new urban, industrial setting. Gossage demonstrates that demographic behaviour was increasingly differentiated by social class, with distinct marriage and fertility patterns emerging among bourgeois and proletarian families."--Jacket
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-291) and index
