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In Wife to Widow, award-winning historian Bettina Bradburyexplores the little studied phenomenon of the transition from wife towidowhood to offer new insights into the law, politics, demography, religion, and domestic life of early nineteenth-century Montreal. Bradbury's unique history spans the lives of two generations ofMontreal women who married either before or after the Patrioterebellions of 1837-38 to reveal a picture of a city and its i...

Bettina Bradbury is an award-winning historian who teaches history and women's studies at York University.

Bettina Bradbury is a member of the History andWomen¿s Studies Departments at York University. TamaraMyers is a member of the Department of History at theUniversity of Winnipeg. Contributors: BettinaBradbury, Marie-Eve Harbec, Karine H¿rt, TamaraMyers, Mary Anne Poutanen, Darcy Ingram, ¿¿ Jarrett Rudy, AnnaShea and Suzanne Morton, Sylvie Taschereau, and Brian Young

Bettina Bradbury is a member of the History andWomen¿s Studies Departments at York University. TamaraMyers is a member of the Department of History at theUniversity of Winnipeg. Contributors: BettinaBradbury, Marie-Eve Harbec, Karine H¿rt, TamaraMyers, Mary Anne Poutanen, Darcy Ingram, ¿¿ Jarrett Rudy, AnnaShea and Suzanne Morton, Sylvie Taschereau, and Brian Young

Working Families" takes the reader onto the streets of Montreal and into the homes of its working-class families during the years that it became a major, industrial city. Between the 1860s and 1890s the expansion of wage labour changed the bases of family survival. It offered new possibilities and created new points of tension within the families of the emerging working class. Here we meet the men, youth, and children who worked for wages. We ...