The authors explore relationships between demographic trends and the public discourse around reproduction in the province at the turn of the 20th century.
They identify a shift in the public discussion of fertility in Quebec during World War I. At this point, pride in and celebration of Quebec's large families was superceded in the dominant, nationalist discourse by anxiety about diminished rates of reproduction and natalist exhortations to women who might be tempted to restrict their fertility.
Demographic and economic differences between Victorian Canada and the United States, however, produced distinctions in Canadian and American women's life course transitions and household status: for Canadian women, older ages at first marriage, and the prolongation of the duration of the status -- spouse of the household head.
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