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
ISBN-10
0773570659
ISBN-13
9780773570658
Category
History
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2003-02-18
Publisher
McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Author
Francoise Noel

Description

She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad social space that included people of various ages. By examining the correspondence and diaries of francophone and anglophone middle-class families of various faiths, Noël presents touching stories of family life in the Canadas in the early nineteenth century.

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