Canada is unique among Western nations in possessing population information dating back almost 400 years. Drawing on this rich background, the book offers a social and institutional account of the evolution of demography in Canada focusing on the period from 1913 to 1995, as the discipline unfolded against the changing cultural, social, and political scene. Augmenting published and unpublished sources with information culled from personalized questionnaires sent to key scholars and practitioners, Sylvia Wargon describes and interprets the development of the field. She provides important background information about the origins and history of demography in Europe and Canada from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century, and explains the gradual development and institutionalization of demography in the French- and English-speaking regions of Canada. Important milestones are discussed in the context of their social environment. Based on French- and English-language sources, Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century is the first and only comprehensive treatment of the subject to date.
Authors
- Bibliography, etc. Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index
- Control Number Identifier
- CaOOCEL
- Dewey Decimal Classification Number
- 304.6/0971/0904
- General Note
- Issued as part of the desLibris books collection
- Geographic Area Code
- n-cn---
- ISBN
- 9780774850148 0774808187
- LCCN
- HB853.C3
- LCCN Item number
- W37 2002eb
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- CaBNVSL
- Original cataloging agency
- CaBVAU
- Physical Description | Extent
- 1 electronic text (xiv, 327 p.)
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- Canada
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- CaOOCEL
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- Access restricted to authorized users and institutions
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- (CaBNVSL)jme00324075 (OCoLC)70772855 (CaOOCEL)404163
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- Mode of access: World Wide Web
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- CaOONL
Table of Contents
- Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century 1
- Sylvia T. Wargon 3
- Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century 3
- Contents 7
- Figures and Tables 8
- Acknowledgments 9
- Acronyms 12
- Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century 15
- Introduction 17
- Summary of Demography in Europe and Canada 1600-2000 23
- Population Statistics and Demographic Research in Canada 1900-50 51
- Outside the Universities in French- and English-Speaking Canada 1950-70 77
- Universities in French- and English-Speaking Canada 1950-70 104
- The Bureau from 1970 Data Research and Related Activities 134
- Universities in French- and English-Speaking Canada from 1970 176
- Outside the Bureau and the Universities from 1970 220
- Demography in Canada in the Twentieth Century 257
- Appendix A Respondents 271
- Appendix B Notes on Race in Canadian Census Statistics Historical Conceptual and Political Dimensions 273
- Appendix C Census and Other Monographs 279
- Appendix D Demolinguistics Origin Use and Definition in Canada 281
- Notes 283
- References 299
- Index 328
