Family life and sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870 : a view from diaries and family correspondence /

Family life and sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870 : a view from diaries and family correspondence /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:Noël, Françoise, 1952- author.
Imprint:Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003.
Description:1 online resource (xii, 372 pages) : illustrations, portraits
Language:English
Subject:
Families -- Ontario -- 19th century.
Families -- Québec (Province) -- 19th century.
Families.
Manners and customs.
Ontario -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Québec (Province) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Ontario.
Québec.
Electronic books.
History.
Sources.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11156750
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ISBN:9780773570658
0773570659
0773524452
9780773524453
1282860801
9781282860803
9786612860805
6612860804
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
English.
Print version record.
Summary:"Drawing from diaries, family correspondence, and other archival sources, Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870 is an intimate look at everyday life, relationships, and community in early Canada. Noel illuminates the lives of anglophone and francophone couples of different religious backgrounds during courtships and marriage, childbirth and the parent-child relationship, aging and death. From Jewish merchant Abraham Joseph and his extended family in Quebec city, to patriote Amedee Papineau and his new wife Mary Wescott in Montreal, to Chatham lawyer William Douglas's unorthodox meeting with Jane Hudson and their courtship by correspondence, this book highlights the rituals, celebrations, kinship, and community at large that influenced family dynamics, giving us a much better understanding of nineteenth-century family life in the Canadas."--Jacket.
Other form:Print version: Noël, Françoise, 1952- Family life and sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870. Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2003

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