Families in transition
Subtitle: industry and population in nineteenth-century Saint-Hyacinthe
By: Peter Gossage.
Series: Studies on the history of Quebec =; Etudes d'histoire du Québec; Studies on the history of Quebec.
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: 1999
Place of publication: Montreal; Ithaca
Language: eng
Number of pages: 299
Subjects: Family -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- History -- 19th century; Households -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- History -- 19th century; Family demography -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- History -- 19th century; Industries -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- History -- 19th century; Démographie de la famille -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Industrie -- Québec (Province) -- Saint-Hyacinthe -- Histoire -- 19e siècle; Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec) -- Population -- History -- 19th century; Saint-Hyacinthe (Québec) -- Population -- Histoire -- 19e siècle
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [269]-291) and index.