The Use of Census Manuscripts for Historical Research
University of Guelph
March 4-7 1993
Sponsored by the Canadian Committee on History and Computing,
the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada
and the University of Guelph
Thursday March 4:
College Inn, Pinetree Room B
9:00-9:30 registration and coffee
9:30-12:30 I. Canadian Industry and Social Structure,
1850-1900
chair/facilitator:
Jose Igartua, Department of History, Universite de Quebec a Montreal and
Canadian Committee on History and Computing
Peter Baskerville and Eric Sager,
Department of History, University of Victoria: Unemployment at the Commencement of Canada's Century
Ben Forster, Department of History,
University of Western Ontario: The Ontario
Furniture Industry, 1860-1880
Chad Gaffield, Department of
History, University of Ottawa and Canadian Committee on History and Computing: Population Turnover and Family Reproduction in an
Industrial Town: Hawkesbury, 1861-1881
Andrew Boyd and Brian MacMillan,
Department of History, University of Toronto: Industrial Development and the Emergence of Economic Elites: Grey
County, 1850-1900
12:30-1:30 lunch
1:30-3:15 II. Urban North America circa 1800
chair/facilitator:
Gillian Hamilton, Department of Economics, University of Toronto
Mary M. Schweitzer, Department of
History, Villanova University: The
Reconstitution of Philadelphia 1791: Linkage among Census Manuscript, Municipal
Assessment and Directory Records
Joanne Burgess, Department of
History, Universite de Quebec a Montreal: The Reconstitution of a Craft Population in Montreal 1781-1831: Linkage
among Census Manuscript, Parish Register and Notarial Records
3:15-3:30 refreshments
3:30-5:15 III. The Canadian Census, 1861 and 1871
chair/facilitator:
Wayne Lewchuk, Departments of Economics and Labour Studies, McMaster University
Bruce Curtis, Department of
Sociology, Wilfrid Laurier University: The Local Construction of Statistical Knowledge: the Case of the 1861
Canadian Census
Kenneth Pryke, Department of
History, University of Windsor: Disease and
Death: A Glimpse through the 1871 Census of the Dead
8:00-10:00 reception (Reid-Armstrong residence, 25
Harcourt Dr.)
Friday March 5: College
Inn, Pinetree Room B
8:30-9:00 registration and coffee
9:00-10:30 IV. Women's Work in Western Mining
Communities
chair/facilitator:
David DeBrou, Department of History, University of Saskatchewan and Canadian
Committee on History and Computing
Elizabeth Herr, Department of
Economics, University of Colorado at Boulder: Female Labor Force Participation Rates in Colorado, 1880
Jeremy Mouat, Department of History,
Athabaska University: Female
Participation and Ethnicity in Rossland British Columbia, 1901
10:30-10:45 refreshments
10:45-12:15 V. Women's Work in England circa 1900
chair/facilitator:
Jamie G. Snell, Department of History, University of Guelph
Eilidh Garrett, Cambridge Group for
the History of Population and Social Structure: The Dawning of a New Era? Women's Work in England and Wales at the
Turn of the 20th Century
Jennifer Wood, Cambridge Group for
the History of Population and Social Structure: Fertility and Female Occupations in Stoke-upon-Trent, Staffordshire,
1891-1921
12:15-1:15 lunch
1:15-2:45 VI. Econometric Analysis of Industrial
Data
chair/facilitator:
Dianne C. Betts, Departments of Economics and History, Southern Methodist
University
Elizabeth Field-Hendry, Department
of Economics, City University of New York: Tests for Permissibility of Aggregating Male and Female Labour
Kris Inwood, Department of
Economics, University of Guelph: The
Industrial Establishment in Late Nineteenth-Century Canada: Economies of Scale
without Power?
2:45-3:00 refreshments
3:00-4:30 VII. Census Enumeration of Blacks
chair/facilitator:
Jim Irwin, Department of Economics, Central Michigan University
Michael Wayne, Department of
History, University of Toronto: The
Enumeration of Blacks in the 1861 Canada West Census
Richard M. Reid, Department of
History, University of Guelph: Tracing
Black Soldiers in the Reconstruction Census
6:30-9:30 dinner (College
Inn) and keynote speaker: Robert P.
Swierenga, Department of History, Kent State
University
Saturday March 6:
MacNaughton Building, Room 113, University of Guelph
9:00-9:30 registration and coffee
9:30-12:00 VIII. Wealth
chair/facilitator:
Phyllis Wagg, Department of History, Dalhousie University
Paul F. Lachance, Department of
History, University of Ottawa: Wealth in
New Orleans in 1860: A Comparison of Census, Fiscal and Probate Data
Gordon Darroch, Department of
Sociology, York University and Lee Soltow, Department of Economics, Ohio
University: The Securely Propertied and the
Propertyless: A Census Manuscript Study of Small Property Holding in Ontario,
1871
Livio Di Matteo, Department of
Economics, Lakehead University: Wealth
Holding in Niagara, 1892
12:00-1:00 lunch
(Faculty Club, 5th floor, University Centre)
1:00-3:30 IX. The Census Representation of
Agricultural Communities
chair/facilitator:
Eugene P. Sigel, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts at
Amherst
Sebastien Coll Martin, Department of
Economics, Universidad de Cantabria and Miguel A. Gutierrez Bringhas, Banco de
Espana: How To Assess the Reliability of Early
Censuses: the 1818 Spanish 'Cuadernos de Riqueza' as a Test Case
Jon R. Moen, Department of
Economics, University of Mississippi: Rural
Non-farm Labour and Schedule Linkage in the 1860 Mississippi Census Manuscripts
Robert Tracy McKenzie, Department of
History, University of Washington: Rediscovering
the 'Farmless' Farm Population: The Nineteenth Century Census and the
Postbellum Reorganization of Agriculture in the U.S. South, 1860-1900
3:30-3:45 refreshments
3:45-5:30 X. Industry-Specific Linkage to the
British Census
chair/facilitator:
Michael Huberman, Department of Economics, Trent University
Valerie C. Burton, Department of
History, Memorial University: Spanning
Sea and Shore: The Nineteenth Century Censuses and Related Records of British
Merchant Seafarers and Maritime Communities
John G. Treble, Department of
Economics, University of Wales at Bangor: A Victorian Household Panel
Sunday March 7:
MacNaughton Building, Room 113, University of Guelph
8:45-9:00 coffee
9:00-10:45 XI. Human Capital: Schooling and
Invention
chair/facilitator:
Tony Ward, Department of Economics, Brock University
David W. Galenson, Department of
Economics, University of Chicago: Educational
Opportunity on the Urban Frontier: Nativity, Wealth and School Attendance in
Early Chicago
William H. Phillips, Department of
Economics, University of South Carolina: Census Matching of Patent-holders
10:45-11:00 refreshments
11:00-12:30 XII. Occupational Mobility and Migration
chair/facilitator:
Liam Kennedy, Department of Economic and Social History, The Queen's University
of Belfast
Joseph P. Ferrie, Department of
Economics, Northwestern University: The
Occupational Mobility of Mid-Nineteenth Century American Immigrants
John S. Lyons, Department of
Economics, Miami University of Ohio: Occupational
Mobility and Migration in Lancashire during the 1840s