Preface

Chapter 1: Population Change into the 21st Century — Don Kerr and Roderic Beaujot

Section 1: Fertility
Chapter 2: Fertility Decline and Social Change: New Trends and Challenges — Bali Ram
Chapter 3: The Northern America Fertility Divide — Barbara Boyle Torrey and Nicholas Eberstadt
Chapter 4: Women, Priests, and Physicians: Family Limitation in Quebec, 1940–1970 — Diane Gervais and Danielle Gauvreau
Chapter 5: The Fertility of Immigrant Women and Their Canadian-Born Daughters — Alain Bélanger and Stéphane Gilbert

Section 2: Mortality
Chapter 6: 100 Years of Health — Susan Crompton
Chapter 7: Declining Mortality and Improved Health Status in 20th-Century Quebec: The Benefits of Medicine and Socio-economic Development — Robert Bourbeau and Mélanie Smuga
Chapter 8: A Comparison of U.S. and Canadian Mortality in 1998 — Barbara Boyle Torrey and Carl Haub
Chapter 9: Narrowing Sex Differential in Life Expectancy in Canada — Frank Trovato

Section 3: International Migration, Domestic Migration, and Population Distribution
Chapter 10: 100 Years of Immigration — Monica Boyd and Michael Vickers
Chapter 11: Globalization, Undocumented Migration, and Unwanted Refugees: Trends, Explanations, and Solutions — Alan B. Simmons
Chapter 12: What Is the Role of Immigration in Canada’s Future? — Alan G. Green
Chapter 13: The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes: Update 2005 — Garnett Picot and Arthur Sweetman
Chapter 14: Migration and the Demographic Transformation of Canadian Cities: The Social Geography of Canada’s Major Metropolitan Centres in 2017 — Daniel Hiebert

Section 4: Population Aging
Chapter 15: Aging and Social Security Program Reforms: Canada in International Perspective — Jacques Légaré
Chapter 16: Geographic Dimensions of Aging in Canada, 1991–2001 — Eric G. Moore and Michael A. Pacey
Chapter 17: Misconceptions and Misapprehensions about Population Aging — Ellen M. Gee

Section 5: Population Composition
Chapter 18: The Changing Face of Canada: The Uneven Geographies of Population and Social Change — Larry S. Bourne and Demaris Rose
Chapter 19: Changes in Conjugal Life in Canada: Is Cohabitation Progressively Replacing Marriage? — Céline Le Bourdais and Évelyn Lapierre-Adamcyk
Chapter 20: Shifts in Ethnic Origins among the Offspring of Immigrants: Is Ethnic Mobility a Measurable Phenomenon? — Gustave Goldmann
Chapter 21: From Pre-contact to the Present: The Demography of the Aboriginal Peoples of Canada — Donna Maynard and Don Kerr
Chapter 22: Spatial Residential Patterns of Selected Ethnic Groups: Significance and Policy Implications — T.R. Balakrishnan and Stephan Gyimah
Chapter 23: Conclusion: Population Change and Policy Implications — Roderic Beaujot and Don Kerr

Appendix: Canadian Population Estimates (1971–2005) and Projections (2005–2031)