The city below the hill : a sociological study of a portion of the city of Montreal, Canada

The city below the hill : a sociological study of a portion of the city of Montreal, Canada /

The city below the hill is a detailed investigation of social conditions in a working class quarter of Montreal during the 1890s. Based on a house-to-house survey of the neighbourhood, this study catalogues and analyses the life of working people after the first years of rapid industrialization. Sir...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ames, Herbert Brown, Sir, 1863-1954
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [Toronto] ; [Buffalo] : University of Toronto Press, ©1972.
Series:Social history of Canada.
Subjects:
Social surveys > Québec (Province) > Montréal.
Slums > Québec (Province) > Montréal > Statistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Slums
Social conditions
Social surveys
Montréal (Québec) > Social conditions.
Montréal (Québec) > Conditions sociales > 19e siècle.
Pointe-Saint-Charles (Montréal, Québec)
Québec > Montréal
Statistics
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Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Employment
  • 3 The composition of the family
  • 4 Family incomes and workers' wages
  • 5 The homes of the wage-earners
  • 6 Comparative rentals
  • 7 Density and overcrowding
  • 8 The poor of the west end
  • 9 The death rate ;
  • 10 Nationalities and religions
  • The housing of the working classes.

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