1. Objectifs

Intentions :
«The chapters in this book are linked by a shared goal: to trace the contours of family as a dynamic and adaptive social grouping and cultural construct in Canada at the turn of the twentieth century.» (p.3)

2. Méthode

Échantillon/Matériau :
Données prélevées du recensement canadien de 1901

Type de traitement des données :
Analyse statistique

3. Résumé

«The authors are members of the Canadian Families Project, who have created a computerized national sample of individual-level information from the 1901 census of Canada.» (p.3) The book begins «[...] with chapters on the general demographic context, and [...] proceed[s], in no order of priority, to chapters on family geography, on the social history of specific groups, and on the cultural context of the 1901 census enumeration.» (p.5) The results of the analysis are often presented by province, which enables comparisons between Canadian areas. «Each of the papers in this volume contributes to [an] image of family and household as fluid and diverse social spaces.» (p.8) The whole suggests «[...] that to understand Canadian demographic dynamics we need to go far beyond the well-worn dichotomies that we see so often in the litterature. Quebec versus Engish Canada; Catholic versus Protestant; French versus English; town versus country; rich versus poor; well-educated versus illiterate: all of these binaries are suggestive of some real patterns, but none of them, on its own, takes us far enough to tell the whole story.» (p.99)

Une fiche a aussi été attribuée à la contribution suivante :
«Family Geographies: Montreal, Canada’s Metropolis» par Larry McCann, Ian Buck et Ole Heggen.