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Book SynopsisThe Other Quebec explores some of the complex ways that religious institutions and beliefs affected the rural societies in which the majority of Canadians still lived in the nineteenth century.
Table of ContentsMaps and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction RELIGION, FAMILY, AND GENDER * The Mental World of Ralph Merry, Tinware Peddler and Religious Ecstatic, 1798-1863 * The Fireside Kingdom: A Mid-Nineteenth-Century Anglican Perspective on Marriage and Parenthood * Gender and Gentility: Lucy Peel's Journal, 1833-6 * A 'Christian Businessman': The Convergence of Precept and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Evangelical Gender Construction RELIGION, SOCIAL REFORM, AND COMMUNITY * 'A Moral Engine of Such Incalculable Power': The Temperance Movement in the Eastern Townships, 1830-52 *'Labouring in a Great Cause': Marcus Child as Pioneer Schools Inspector, 1852-9 * Railways, Revivals, and Rowdyism: The Beebe Adventist Camp Meeting, 1875-1900 * A Crime 'Shrouded in Mystery': State, Church, and Community in the Kinnear's Mills Post-Office Case, 1899-1905 Afterword Credits Index
