| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.3

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Françoise Noël. Family Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780–1870: A View from Diaries and Family Correspondence. Ithaca, N.Y.: McGill-Queen's University Press. 2003. Pp. xii, 372. $49.95.

Françoise Noël's account of the loving ties that bound together families and their friends in Upper and Lower colonial Canada (today Ontario and Quebec) is an affecting and fascinating book. Noël draws on family letters and personal diaries to reveal the quality of intimate life from 1780 to 1870. Beginning with the couple, she investigates courtship customs, patterns of married life in their initial and mature stages, and relationships between parents and their children. Noël then broadens the discussion to investigate the family's links to the community in social life and mutual support in times of crisis. Despite the frequent reality of hard times and the ever-present specter of death, Noël paints a rosy picture of companionate marriages entered into for love, deep emotional connections between children and parents, husbands strongly interested in all aspects of domestic life, and warm, supportive, extended community and kinship networks. Certainly no one who reads her moving accounts of the agonies of enduring the deaths of children will ever again suggest that in the days of high infant mortality parents cultivated an emotional detachment from their offspring.

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