Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870

She notes that courtship usually took place within the social network of interactions with kin and neighbours and shows that family life was located in a broad social space that included people of various ages. By examining the correspondence and diaries of francophone and anglophone middle-class families of various faiths, Noel presents touching stories of family life in the Canadas in the early nineteenth century.