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The dawn of Canada's century : hidden histories
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- Creator
- edited by Gordon Darroch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Montreal ; Kingston : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2014]
- Physical Details
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- xxi, 498 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780773542525, 9780773589391, 0773589406, 0773542523, 1306547733, 0773589392, 9780773589407
- OCLC
- ocn862544884, ocn862544883, ocn879870199
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Issued also in electronic format.
- Part I. Introductions. New Sources: New Social Histories / Gordon Darroch -- The CCRI Geographical Files: Introduction and Examples / Byron Moldofsky
- Part II. Canadian Diversities: Debates and Dimensions. Infrastructures of Census Taking / Evelyn Ruppert -- "Let Us Be Canadians!": The Debate Over Allowing "Canadian" as a Racial Origin in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Censuses / Adam J. Green -- "Do Not Use for Comparison with Other Censuses": Identity, Politics, and Languages Commonly Spoken in 1911 Canada / Chad Gaffield, Byron Moldofsky, and Katharine Rollwagen -- Canada's Aboriginal Population: A Unique Historical Perspective / Gustave Goldmann
- Part III. Social Spaces, Historical Places. Household Experiences in Canada's Early Twentieth-Century Transformation / Gordon Darroch -- Aging and Social Reproduction in Canada, 1901-11 / Lisa Dillon -- Geography of Encounter: Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Interethnic Relations within Quebec, 1881-1911 / Danielle Gauvreau and Patricia Thornton
- Part IV. Locales In Transition. Trois-Rivières and Its People: A Portrait of a Smaller City in Transition at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century / Claude Bellavance and France Normand -- A New Look at Confederation: Shifting Population Dynamics and Newfoundland's Relationship with Canada, 1869-1949 / Terry Quinlan and Sean T. Cadigan -- Individual and Familial Life Courses in Quebec City, 1871-1911: Some Considerations on Two Biographical Data Sets / Marc St-Hilaire, Laurent Richard, and Richard Marcoux
- Part V. Markets and Mobility: Class, Ethnicity, Gender. Labour Market Dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: A First Look from New Census Samples / Kris Inwood, Mary MacKinnon, and Chris Minns -- The Vertical Mosaic Anticipated: Ancestral Origin, Occupational Status, and Earnings in Canada before 1914 / Charles Jones and Stella Park Canada's Immigrants in 1911: A Class Analysis / Eric W. Sager -- The Worth of Children and Women: Life Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Canada / Peter Baskerville