Eating in the City: Diet and Provisioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
Eating in the City: Diet and Provisioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal
Abstract
Using business records and other sources, the author reconstructs the diets for two groups at opposite ends of early nineteenth century Montreal's social structure: Lachine Canal workers and wealthy elites. The author also examines how and where people in the city got their food, as well as the economic aspects of food-getting, prices and food budgets. The author shows that ethnicity and personal preference had an effect on what people ate. For example, Francophone and Anglophone canal workers showed differences in taste and variations in diets.
Type
Master's Thesis
University
McGill University
Place
Montreal
Date
1989
# of Pages
vii-194p.
Language
en
URL
Citation
Fyson, Donald. “Eating in the City: Diet and Provisioning in Early Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” Master’s Thesis, McGill University, 1989. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/obj/thesescanada/vol1/QMM/TC-QMM-55597.pdf.
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