SOCIOL 2U06 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Nuclear Family, Chain Migration, Indian Act
6 Oct 2016
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Canadian families in the past: the decline of the patriarchal. Early european settlers to canada (with a focus on british and french settlers in the 19th and early 20th century) Indigenous groups, both before and after contact with european settlers and colonization. Early british and french settlers had families that were nuclear and patriarchal and involved monogamous marriage. Highly critical of indigenous families: early settlement= high birth rate, needed children for labour, catholic church which did not believe in contraception. The huron did not live in privatized nuclear households. These were and hunting and gathering group. The family structure was nuclear in that married coupes set up their own independent household: women"s labour is economically critical. Women not only cooking but also making fish nets (productive labour: men public recognition because of hunting and their warfare. Like the huron, the iroquois also lived in matrilineal kinship groups in longhouses: women hold a lot of power.
