Title Family and community life in northeastern Ontario : the interwar years / Françoise Noël

Published Montréal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2009 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2010)

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 349 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits Contents Population origins and growth -- Family life and household economy in town and country -- Family celebrations and domestic occasions -- Rite-of-passage rituals -- Building communities of faith -- The elementary school experience -- "Delayed responsibility" : high school and normal school -- Community recreation and leisure -- Community building through sports -- Community celebrations Summary Annotation Franoise Nol explores the social context of Canada_s most famous family to show how family ritual and communal events structured everyday life between the Wars. An extensive series of interviews with local residents and a reconstruction of local news and events as chronicled inThe Nuggetnewspaper, among other sources, allow Nol to bring to life the daily routines and celebrations that were a part of family life in rural and urban settings from Mattawa to North Bay. Family life was not lived in isolation, and she also reveals the rich community life that developed in shared social spaces like schools and churches, and through community groups. What people did for fun may have been frivolous but it was not trivial: accounts of shared leisure activities, popular sports, and community festivals such as Old Home Week provide important insights into the structure and value of community life. While the question of relations between French-speaking, English-speaking, and other Canadians and immigrants has often been analysed in terms of conflicts, Noel shows the extent to which such communities lived side by side in relative harmony during the inter-war years, although such harmony was often achieved by minimizing the extent of inter-community interaction.Family and Community Life in Northeastern Ontarioprovides a detailed perspective on family and community life outside the larger Canadian urban centres that have been the focus of much previous scholarly study Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-332) and index Subject Families -- Ontario, Northern -- 20th century Community life -- Ontario, Northern -- History -- 20th century Families -- Ontario, Northern -- History -- 20th century FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Alternative Family. FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS -- Reference. HISTORY -- Canada -- Post-Confederation (1867- ) Community life Families Manners and customs SUBJECT Ontario, Northern -- Social life and customs -- 20th century Subject Northern Ontario Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773576148 0773576142 9780773583702 077358370X

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