This article appraises kin availability and migration timing on French-Canadian child mortality in an early twentieth-century North American industrial city. The analysis is based on the exploitation of an original dataset constructed by linking the 1910 census data (IPUMS-Full Count) for Manchester, New Hampshire to Quebec Catholic marriage records (BALSAC) and geocoding census data at the household level (Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps). Our results suggest that the presence of maternal and paternal grandmothers in the city living in different households were associated with reduced child mortality and that French-Canadian women who arrived in the United States as children or young adults experienced higher child mortality compared to second-generation French Canadians and those who migrated at a later age.

本文评估了二十世纪初北美工业城市的法裔加拿大儿童死亡率的亲属可用性和迁移时间。该分析基于对原始数据集的利用，该数据集通过将新罕布什尔州曼彻斯特 1910 年人口普查数据 (IPUMS-Full Count) 与魁北克天主教婚姻记录 (BALSAC) 和家庭层面的地理编码人口普查数据 (桑伯恩火灾保险地图) 联系起来而构建）。我们的研究结果表明，在城市中居住在不同家庭的祖母和祖母与儿童死亡率降低有关，并且与第二代相比，在儿童或青年时期抵达美国的法裔加拿大妇女的儿童死亡率更高法裔加拿大人以及晚年移民的人。