Religion, Family, and Community in Victorian Canada: The Colbys of Carrollcroft Volume 39

By Marguerite Van Die

While we know a great deal about the role religion played in institutions in Victorian Canada, its place in home and family life has remained relatively unexplored. Drawing on a treasure trove of family papers and material culture, Marguerite Van Die depicts religion as "lived experience" in a portrait of a Protestant middle-class family in Quebec's Eastern Townships. Van Die, a sympathetic and perceptive observer and a gifted and deft interpreter, describes the lives of the Colbys of Carrollcroft - members of Canada's emerging economic elite who were active in the local community, public life, and politics - drawing attention to the links connecting domestic religion and private life, business concerns, and social change in one family's life over three generations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773530282
• ISBN13: 9780773530287
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"