Ebook: Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870: A View from Diaries and Family Correspondence

Drawing on diaries and letters exchanged between family members Françoise Noël considers the nature of family, the couple during courtship and after marriage, parents and children in childhood and after the children leave home, and the social life of the family in terms of both leisure time and entertainment and the mutual assistance provided by social networks of kin, neighbours, and friends.