Peopling the North American city
Subtitle: Montreal, 1840-1900
By: Sherry Olson and Patricia A. Thornton
Contributors: Thornton, Patricia A.
Series: Carleton Library series -- 222; Carleton library -- 222.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithica
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9780773538306; 9780773538313
Subjects: Social life and customs; Relations interethniques; Histoire; Vie urbaine; Montréal (Québec); Assimilation (Sociology); Ethnic relations; Moeurs et coutumes; Assimilation (Sociologie); Familles immigrantes; Immigrant families; City and town life; History
Description: "Many North American cities trace their population booms to the nineteenth century when people flooded into emerging industrializing urban centres in search of better lives. Peopling the North American City examines this phenomenon in Montreal, using information from a thousand couples to construct both an intimate portrait and a compelling overview of life in a nineteenth-century metropolis."--Page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [379]-501) and indexes.