Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures vii
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. The Organization of Age: Age and Old Age in the Canadian and US Censuses, 1870–1901 32
7. The Expression of Age: Age (Mis)reporting in the Canadian and US Censuses 75
8. Ambiguity and Discontinuity in the Lives of Elderly Women 133
9. Thresholds of Old Age among Men 179
10. Grandmothers and Grandfathers 215
11. Conclusion 272
12. Notes 282
13. Bibliography 305
14. Index 329