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Gossage uses a family-reconstitution method, drawing on local parish registers and manuscript-census schedules, to focus on marriage, household organization, and family size in this context of social and economic change. Family formation was profoundly affected as couples adjusted to the new urban, industrial setting. Gossage demonstrates that demographic behaviour was increasingly differentiated by social class, with distinct marriage and fertility patterns emerging among bourgeois and proletarian families. Bourgeois women who married in the 1860s, for example, were already limiting family size, a crucial shift that did not occur in working-class families until almost a generation later. Families in Transition demonstrates the extent to which stereotypes about family life in Quebec before the Quiet Revolution need to be revisited. Far from being passive, static, uniformly prolific, and constrained by religious and cultural perspectives, Saint-Hyacinthe families responded quickly to the changing realities of the day, reinventing marriage patterns and domestic arrangements to fit the new industrial capitalism of the nineteenth century. In this sense they were truly families in transition.

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"Participant aux affaires publiques, côtoyant les cercles de privilégiés de sa communauté (Terrebonne), François-Hyacinthe Séguin est un fervent catholique, lecteur de Voltaire, pourfendeur des révolutions libérales et rationaliste. Son journal, rédigé quelques années avant la rébellion, relève à la fois du genre mémorialiste, du journal intime et des notes personnelles. Il offre aux lecteurs un portrait savoureux et teinté d'ironie de la société bas-canadienne de l'époque : du simple journalier de Terrebonne aux grands hommes politiques de la colonie britannique, rien n'échappe à la plume colorée et incisive de son auteur. Le journal témoigne de la vie communautaire, du pouvoir local et des enjeux de société liés à la démocratie parlementaire. Pourtant, bien plus qu'un simple portrait des mœurs sociales ou politiques, ce journal d'un loyal de la bourgeoisie canadienne-française donne voix à des idées et des discours que l'histoire contemporaine a trop souvent ignorés."--Page 4 of cover.

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