books.google.ca - Drawing on diaries and letters exchanged between family members Françoise Noël considers the nature of family, the couple during courtship and after marriage, parents and children in childhood and after the children leave home, and the social life of the family in terms of both leisure time and entertainment...http://books.google.ca/books/about/Family_Life_and_Sociability_in_Upper_and.html?id=1sqELUiwf0oC&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareFamily Life and Sociability in Upper and Lower Canada, 1780-1870