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Montreal Property-Owners of the 1850s: 'Born or to be Born'
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Montreal Property-Owners of the 1850s: 'Born or to be Born'
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The author points out that in a fast-growing city, rising values of real estate were recognized as assets for social advancement, and some property-owners in Montreal, by will or donation, chose to restrict the rights of their children in order to ensure the transmission of property to their grandchildren. The author's analysis is based on a corpus of seventy-one cases extracted from guardianship records (tutelles). The samples provide a glimpse into kinship solidarities and neighbouring behaviours that extended over four generations. The author notes that the findings contradict the exclusionary view predominant in the historiographies of rural aristocracies of England, France and Quebec. In the Montreal context, she notes, the "generation-skipping" mechanism known as the substitution had advantages for buffering risk and seizing opportunities.
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L’argent des familles : pratiques et régulations sociales en Occident aux XIXe et XXe siècles
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Trois-Rivières et Québec
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Centre interuniversitaire d'études québécoises/CIEQ
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2019
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213-237
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en
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978-2-921926-76-8
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Olson, Sherry. “Montreal Property-Owners of the 1850s: ‘Born or to Be Born.’” In L’argent Des Familles : Pratiques et Régulations Sociales En Occident Aux XIXe et XXe Siècles, edited by Florent Le Bot, Thierry Nootens, and Yvan Rousseau, 213–237. Trois-Rivières et Québec: Centre interuniversitaire d’études québécoises/CIEQ, 2019. https://images.cieq.ca/CIEQ_WEB/multimedia/ISBN9782921926768.pdf.
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