Families in Transition: Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe PDF
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Families in Transition STUDIES ON THE HISTORY OF QUEBEC/ ETUDES D'HISTOIRE DU QUEBEC John Dickinson and Brian Young Series Editors/Directeurs de la collection Habitants and Merchants in Seventeenth-Century Montreal Louise Dechene Crofters and Habitants Setter Society, Economy, and Culture in a Quebec Township, 1848-1881 /./. Little The Christie Seigneuries Estate Management and Settlement in the Upper Richelieu Valley, 1760—1859 Francoise Noel La Prairie en Nouvelle-France, 1647—1760 Louis Lavallee The Politics of Codification The Lower Canadian Civil Code of 1866 Brian Young Arvida au Saguenay Naissance d'une ville industrielle Jose E. Igartua State and Society in Transition The Politics of Institutional Reform in the Eastern Townships, 1838-1852 //. Little Vingt ans apres Habitants et marchands, Lectures de 1'histoire des xviie et xviiie siecles canadiens Habitants et marchands, Twenty Years Later Reading the History of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Canada Edited by Sylvie Depatie, Catherine Desbarats, Danielle Gauvreau, Mario Lalancette, Thomas Wien Families in Transition Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe Peter Gossage Families in Transition Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe PETER GOSSAGE McGill-Queen's University Press Montreal & Kingston • London • Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Press 1999 ISBN 0-7735-1847-9 Legal deposit third quarter 1999 Bibliotheque nationale du Quebec Printed in Canada on acid-free paper This book has been published with the help of a grant from the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada, using funds provided by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. Financial support has also been received from the Universite de Sherbrooke via the Fonds d'appui aux activites de creation et d'edition savante. McGill-Queen's University Press acknowledges the financial support of the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development Program (BPIDP) for its activities. We also acknowl- edge the support of the Canada Council for the Arts for our publishing program. Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data Gossage, Peter, 1956- Families in transition : industry and population in nineteenth-century Saint-Hyacinthe (Studies on the history of Quebec - etudes d'histoire du Quebec) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-7735-1847-9 i. Saint-Hyacinthe (Quebec) - Population - History - 19th century, i. Tide. ii. Series: Studies on the history of Quebec HNI 10.332068 1999 304.6'o9714'523 099-900497-2 Typeset in 10/12 Baskerville by Acappella For Annmarie This page intentionally left blank Contents Tables ix Figures xiii Preface xv Abbreviations xix Illustrations after pages 10, 78, and 114 Introduction 3 1 Saint-Hyacinthe in Context 11 2 Genesis of an Industrial Town 36 3 To Have and to Hold: Marriage and Family Formation in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacinthe 79 4 Families at the Threshold: Newlyweds, Household Structure, and Proximity to Kin 115 5 Interesting Conditions: Fertility and Family Size in Transition 139 6 Conclusion: The Art of the Possible 177 Appendix Family Formation in Focus: An Essay on Methods 183 Notes 213 Bibliography 269 Index 293 This page intentionally left blank Tables 1-1 Population, Catholic population, and number of house- holds in municipalities in the Saint-Hyacinthe area: 1851—1901 / 22 1-2 Catholic population, baptisms, burials, natural increase, total increase, and net migration for Parish of Saint- Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur: 1861—1901 / 24 1-3 Birth, marriage, and death rates for Catholic population of the Parish of Saint-Hyacinthe-le-Confesseur: 1861— 1901 / 25 2-1 Industrial establishments in Saint-Hyacinthe, 1871: Number of shops, number of workers, and average number of workers per shop, by productive sector / 47 2-2 Occupational structure: Saint-Hyacinthe, 1861 and 1891 56 2-3 Occupational structure: Saint-Hyacinthe men, 1861 and 1891/57-8 2-4 Occupational structure: Saint-Hyacinthe women, 1861 and 1891 / 60 3-1 Occupations of husbands in the three marriage cohorts /8l-2 3-2 Occupations: Fathers of wives in the three cohorts / 85
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