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035 _a(DE-B1597)9781487595647
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035 _a(OCoLC)1091660900
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aGagan, David
_eautore
245 1 0 _aHopeful Travellers :
_bFamilies, Land, and Social Change in Mid-Victorian Peel County, Canada West /
_cDavid Gagan.
264 1 _aToronto :
_bUniversity of Toronto Press,
_c[1981]
264 4 _c©1981
300 _a1 online resource (220 p.)
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337 _acomputer
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338 _aonline resource
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490 0 _aHeritage
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520 _aIn this exploration of the nature of social reality in a mid-nineteenth-century Upper Canadian farming community, Professor Gagan employs the techniques of historical demography to reconstruct the population of mid-Victorian Peel County - specifically the histories of those families who occupied the county between 1845 and 1875. The evidence will be familiar to anyone who has tried to trace nineteenth-century Canadian family roots, but in this analysis the material is used to answer a broad range of questions related to the central problems of land availability and social change. The author argues that in Peel County, as in the rest of Upper Canada, immigration, settlement, and population growth rapidly changed the previously agrarian frontiers of cheap and abundant farm land into mature agricultural communities. Patterns of inheritance, the timing of family formation, the size and structure of families, the life-cycle experiences of men, women, and children, chances for social betterment, and patterns of vocational and geographical mobility were all linked to the problem of land availability and all underwent subtle changes as rural society attempted to adjust to the new realities of life in the clearings. This book is both s significant contribution to the social history of Ontario and to the growing corpus of comparative, international scholarship on the history of the family.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 7 _aHISTORY / Canada / General.
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850 _aIT-RoAPU
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487595647
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