Scanty fortunes and rural middle-class formation in nineteenth-century central Ontario.
Explores the formation of the middle-class society in Ontario in the nineteenth-century based on manuscript censuses of 1861 and 1871. Patterns of structured rural inequality in the provinces; Geographic distribution of farm sizes; Patterns of farm acquisition and improvement; Very active land mark...
| Publicado en: | Canadian Historical Review Vol. 79; no. 4; pp. 621 - 660 |
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University of Toronto Press
Dec98
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| Sumario: | Explores the formation of the middle-class society in Ontario in the nineteenth-century based on manuscript censuses of 1861 and 1871. Patterns of structured rural inequality in the provinces; Geographic distribution of farm sizes; Patterns of farm acquisition and improvement; Very active land market as evidenced by local newspaper advertisements. |
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