Includes bibliographical references.

New France: forming families in a new land. Gender imbalance, les filles du roi, and choice of spouse in New France / Yves Landry -- Unwed mothers, families, and society during the French regime / Marie-Aimee Cliche -- Native peoples and occupiers: confrontations of family norms and economic systems. "The custom of the country": an examination of fur trade marriage practices / Sylvia Van Kirk -- A Cree nurse in a cradle of Methodism: little Mary Egerton R. Young at Norway House and Berens River / Jennifer S.H. Brown -- Rural and fishing families: production and reproduction. Transmission of family property and the cycle of Quebec rural society from the seventeenth to the twentieth century / Gerard Bouchard -- Canadian families in cultural context: hypotheses from the mid-nineteenth century / Chad M. Gaffield -- "She was skipper of the shore-crew": notes on the history of the sexual division of labour in Newfoundland / Marilyn Porter -- The sexual division of labour within urban families. Gender at work at home: family decisions, the labour market, and girls' contributions to the family economy / Bettina Bradbury -- Hidden workers: child labour and the family economy in late nineteenth-century urban Ontario / John Bullen -- Rethinking work and kinship in a Canadian hosiery town, 1919-1950 / Joy Parr -- "It was a hard life": class and gender in the work and family rhythms of a railway town, 1920-1950 / Mark Rosenfeld -- From contadina to worker: southern Italian immigrant working women in Toronto, 1947-62 / Franca Lacovetta -- Two hands for the clock: changing patterns in the gendered division of labour in the home / Meg Luxton -- Marriage law and marriage rituals. Married women's property law in nineteenth-century Canada / Constance B. Backhouse -- The June bride as the working-class bride: getting married in a Halifax working-class neighbourhood in the 1920s / Suzanne Morton -- Families and the state. "The white life for two": the defence of marriage and sexual morality in Canada, 1890-1914 / James G. Snell -- Family allowances and family autonomy: Quebec families encounter the welfare state, 1945-1955 / Dominique Jean.

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