Peter Baskerville
Biographic Data
| ID | 525903 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Baskerville |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Baskerville |
| SIGNATURE | BASKERVILLE P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Victoria |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Return of Quantitative Approaches to Canadian History
An important kind of digital-based research – the use of quantitative sources and analysis – expanded in Canadian history journals during the 1970s and 1980s, declined in the 1990s, and then has increased again since the early years of the new millennium. A wide variety of sources are being digitized and used for historical research that is wholly or, more commonly, partially quantitative in nature. The Canadian census is the most widely used of …
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources
CHR Forum: Canadian Historical Research and Pedagogy: A View from the Perspective of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure
In this article we explore what the exploding world of humanities and social science research infrastructures might mean for teaching and research in the discipline of history. We focus closely on one example, that of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project (ccri). This interdisciplinary and multi-university project has constructed an infrastructure composed of microdata from the nominal-level Canadian censuses from 1911 through 1951…
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it was a fluid micro-social community through which people lived and moved. There was no one .traditional. family, but rather many types of families …
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Familiar Strangers: Urban Families with Boarders, Canada, 1901
Much has been written about boarding and lodging in late-nineteenthcentury North America. Modell and Hareven 1977 provides a benchmark study of boarding in East Coast urban centers in the United States. For Canada, Medjuck 1980; Katz 1975; Katz et al. 1982; Harney 1978; Bradbury 1984, 1993; and Harris 1992, 1994, and 1996 shed light on aspects of boarding in various Canadian urban communities from the 1850s to the 1950s. In general these studies …
Home Ownership and Spacious Homes: Equity under Stress in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada
This article attempts to contribute to a burgeoning literature on Canadian housing history. It approaches the nature of housing by linking two measurements often examined in isolation: ownership and interior space. Using data from the Canadian Families Project’s 5 percent random sample of the nominal census returns for Canada in 1901, this article presents the first national analysis comparing housing ownership and housing space in both rural and…
Displaying the Working Class: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: working classwomencensusunemploymentoccupations
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Women and Investment in Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Canada: Victoria and Hamilton, 1880-1901
Until recently the separate spheres paradigm provided the main framework for our understanding of urban middle-class women’s activities in the nineteenth century. This perspective left little room for an appreciation of women as wealth holders, as the owners and managers of material assets in their own names. Through the systematic use of assessment rolls, probates, marriage records, and census data, this article attempts to determine the degree …
Family history in canada: An Introduction
Contemporary debates about “family crisis” has led to a resurgence of interest in family history in Canada. The field builds on the strong tradition of demographic history in Quebec, and on historical sociology, historical geography, ethnohistory, and recent developments in cultural history. Recent projects in both Quebec and English Canada have accepted the challenge of international comparative analysis. Notes 1 Sessions on census data and on i…
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
Canadian Papers in Business History
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
The Bank of Upper Canada
The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents
The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a commercial to an industrial era.
Bank of Upper Canada
Publications of the Champlain Society
Financial Capital and the Municipal State: The Case of Victoria, British Columbia, 1910–1936
The study of Canadian urban history has undergone significant change over the past decade. Those who first began to write in a serious and sustained way about the history of Canadian cities adopted as their approach that of the leading Canadian historical biographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Emphasis was placed on the actions of local boosters as the key, and even independent variable for understanding the nature of urban change
Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto
The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Toronto is an appropriate occasion to reflect on the history of one of Canada's major cities. In this collection of essays, published to mark the sesquicentennial, a number of historians, geographers, and political scientists analyse the history of the relationship between the corporation of the city of Toronto and the city that it administers. What emerges from these st…
The Automated Archivist: Interdisciplinarity and the Process of Historical Research
Americans in Britain's Backyard: The Railway Era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880
Canadian lines that were spreading out over what would become the Province of Ontario looked forward, in the years before the American Civil War, to becoming important east-west carriers between the rapidly growing American cities of the eastern seaboard and the still-new cities of the American Midwest. Canada's small population and undeveloped industry would force her railroads to rely heavily on traffic going from one American city to another. …
Books on Canada
J. C. Ryhert and the Conservative Party 1882–92: Study of a Scandal
Canadian Papers in Business History
The Automated Archivist: Interdisciplinarity and the Process of Historical Research
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
Americans in Britain's Backyard: The Railway Era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880
Canadian lines that were spreading out over what would become the Province of Ontario looked forward, in the years before the American Civil War, to becoming important east-west carriers between the rapidly growing American cities of the eastern seaboard and the still-new cities of the American Midwest. Canada's small population and undeveloped industry would force her railroads to rely heavily on traffic going from one American city to another. …
Home Ownership and Spacious Homes: Equity under Stress in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada
This article attempts to contribute to a burgeoning literature on Canadian housing history. It approaches the nature of housing by linking two measurements often examined in isolation: ownership and interior space. Using data from the Canadian Families Project’s 5 percent random sample of the nominal census returns for Canada in 1901, this article presents the first national analysis comparing housing ownership and housing space in both rural and…
Displaying the Working Class: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: working classwomencensusunemploymentoccupations
The Bank of Upper Canada
Financial Capital and the Municipal State: The Case of Victoria, British Columbia, 1910–1936
The study of Canadian urban history has undergone significant change over the past decade. Those who first began to write in a serious and sustained way about the history of Canadian cities adopted as their approach that of the leading Canadian historical biographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Emphasis was placed on the actions of local boosters as the key, and even independent variable for understanding the nature of urban change
J. C. Ryhert and the Conservative Party 1882–92: Study of a Scandal
Books on Canada
Americans in Britain's Backyard: The Railway Era in Upper Canada, 1850–1880
Canadian lines that were spreading out over what would become the Province of Ontario looked forward, in the years before the American Civil War, to becoming important east-west carriers between the rapidly growing American cities of the eastern seaboard and the still-new cities of the American Midwest. Canada's small population and undeveloped industry would force her railroads to rely heavily on traffic going from one American city to another. …
The Automated Archivist: Interdisciplinarity and the Process of Historical Research
Financial Capital and the Municipal State: The Case of Victoria, British Columbia, 1910–1936
The study of Canadian urban history has undergone significant change over the past decade. Those who first began to write in a serious and sustained way about the history of Canadian cities adopted as their approach that of the leading Canadian historical biographers of the 1950s and 1960s. Emphasis was placed on the actions of local boosters as the key, and even independent variable for understanding the nature of urban change
Forging a Consensus: Historical Essays on Toronto
The one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the city of Toronto is an appropriate occasion to reflect on the history of one of Canada's major cities. In this collection of essays, published to mark the sesquicentennial, a number of historians, geographers, and political scientists analyse the history of the relationship between the corporation of the city of Toronto and the city that it administers. What emerges from these st…
The Bank of Upper Canada: A Collection of Documents
The Bank of Upper Canada played a major role in government financial affairs. Its relations with other banks and its British financial agents reveal the interconnectedness of the 19th century financial world. This book takes a look at a financial institution during the profound transition from a commercial to an industrial era.
Bank of Upper Canada
Publications of the Champlain Society
The First National Unemployment Survey: Unemployment and the Canadian Census of 1891
The 1891 census asked Canadians if they had been unemployed in the week preceding the taking of the census. On the basis of a preliminary analysis of responses from working class areas in British Columbia, we comment on the nature of this source, and on the possibility of using it to determine both the extent of unemployment and the characteristics of the unemployed. We demonstrate our conclusion that this source has significant utility by testin…
The Bank of Upper Canada
Canadian Papers in Business History
Planting the Province: The Economic History of Upper Canada, 1784-1870
Unemployment, living standards, and the working-class family in urban Canada in 1901
This article addresses a problem faced by many historians of living standards: what was the effect of unemployment on the real incomes of working-class families during industrialization? The 1901 Census of Canada offers a rare opportunity to answer this question, and to measure both unemployment and living standards while taking into account the contributions of all family wage-earners. The conclusion is that average weekly or monthly wages were …
Women and Investment in Late-Nineteenth-Century Urban Canada: Victoria and Hamilton, 1880-1901
Until recently the separate spheres paradigm provided the main framework for our understanding of urban middle-class women’s activities in the nineteenth century. This perspective left little room for an appreciation of women as wealth holders, as the owners and managers of material assets in their own names. Through the systematic use of assessment rolls, probates, marriage records, and census data, this article attempts to determine the degree …
Family history in canada: An Introduction
Contemporary debates about “family crisis” has led to a resurgence of interest in family history in Canada. The field builds on the strong tradition of demographic history in Quebec, and on historical sociology, historical geography, ethnohistory, and recent developments in cultural history. Recent projects in both Quebec and English Canada have accepted the challenge of international comparative analysis. Notes 1 Sessions on census data and on i…
Displaying the Working Class: The 1901 Census of Canada
Key Words: working classwomencensusunemploymentoccupations
Unwilling Idlers: The Urban Unemployed and Their Families in Late Victorian Canada
Familiar Strangers: Urban Families with Boarders, Canada, 1901
Much has been written about boarding and lodging in late-nineteenthcentury North America. Modell and Hareven 1977 provides a benchmark study of boarding in East Coast urban centers in the United States. For Canada, Medjuck 1980; Katz 1975; Katz et al. 1982; Harney 1978; Bradbury 1984, 1993; and Harris 1992, 1994, and 1996 shed light on aspects of boarding in various Canadian urban communities from the 1850s to the 1950s. In general these studies …
Home Ownership and Spacious Homes: Equity under Stress in Early-Twentieth-Century Canada
This article attempts to contribute to a burgeoning literature on Canadian housing history. It approaches the nature of housing by linking two measurements often examined in isolation: ownership and interior space. Using data from the Canadian Families Project’s 5 percent random sample of the nominal census returns for Canada in 1901, this article presents the first national analysis comparing housing ownership and housing space in both rural and…
Citizens and Nation: An Essay on History, Communication, and Canada
Household Counts: Canadian Households and Families in 1901
The Canadian census taken in 1901 has surprising things to say about the family as a social grouping and cultural construct at the turn of the twentieth century. Although the nuclear-family household was the most frequent type of household, family was not a singular form or structure at all; rather, it was a fluid micro-social community through which people lived and moved. There was no one .traditional. family, but rather many types of families …
CHR Forum: Canadian Historical Research and Pedagogy: A View from the Perspective of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure
In this article we explore what the exploding world of humanities and social science research infrastructures might mean for teaching and research in the discipline of history. We focus closely on one example, that of the Canadian Century Research Infrastructure Project (ccri). This interdisciplinary and multi-university project has constructed an infrastructure composed of microdata from the nominal-level Canadian censuses from 1911 through 1951…
Lives in Transition: Longitudinal Analysis from Historical Sources
The Return of Quantitative Approaches to Canadian History
An important kind of digital-based research – the use of quantitative sources and analysis – expanded in Canadian history journals during the 1970s and 1980s, declined in the 1990s, and then has increased again since the early years of the new millennium. A wide variety of sources are being digitized and used for historical research that is wholly or, more commonly, partially quantitative in nature. The Canadian census is the most widely used of …
Canadian Identity and History (17 works) · Sociology (16 works) · Political science (13 works) · History (12 works) · Geography (10 works) · Demography (9 works) · Census (8 works) · Economics (8 works) · Population (8 works) · Archaeology (7 works)