Families in Transition

Families in Transition

Industry and Population in Nineteenth-Century Saint-Hyacynthe

by Peter Gossage

299 pages· 1999· ISBN 9780773518476
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Economic and social conditions in Saint-Hyacinthe changed dramatically in the later nineteenth century with the arrival of the railway and the emergence of manufacturing industry. In Families in Transition Peter Gossage shows how the rise of industrial capitalism transformed the lives of the town's French-speaking, Catholic families.

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