Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables ix
4. Figures xv
5. Acknowledgments xix
6. Introductions
7. New Sources: New Social Histories 3
8. The CCRI Geographical Files: Introduction and Examples 19
9. Canadian Diversities: Debates and Dimensions
10. Infrastructures of Census Taking 51
11. “Let Us Be Canadians!”: The Debate Over Allowing “Canadian” as a Racial Origin in Early Twentieth-Century Canadian Censuses 71
12. “Do Not Use for Comparison with Other Censuses”: Identity, Politics, and Languages Commonly Spoken in 1911 Canada 93
13. Canada’s Aboriginal Population: A Unique Historical Perspective 124
14. Social Spaces, Historical Places
15. Household Experiences in Canada’s Early Twentieth-Century Transformation 149
16. Aging and Social Reproduction in Canada, 1901–11 191
17. Geography of Encounter: Immigration, Ethnic Diversity, and Interethnic Relations within Quebec, 1881–1911 228
18. Locales in Transition
19. Trois-Rivières and Its People: A Portrait of a Smaller City in Transition at the Beginning of the Twentieth Century 271
20. A New Look at Confederation: Shifting Population Dynamics and Newfoundland’s Relationship with Canada, 1869–1949 297
21. Individual and Familial Life Courses in Quebec City, 1871–1911: Some Considerations on Two Biographical Data Sets 322
22. Markets and Mobility Class, Ethnicity, Gender
23. Labour Market Dynamics in Canada, 1891–1911: A First Look from New Census Samples 361
24. The Vertical Mosaic Anticipated: Ancestral Origin, Occupational Status, and Earnings in Canada before 1914 396
25. Canada’s Immigrants in 1911: A Class Analysis 428
26. The Worth of Children and Women: Life Insurance in Early Twentieth-Century Canada 452
27. Contributors 481
28. Index 487