The shady side of fifty : age and old age in late Victorian Canada and the United States / Lisa Dillon.

Montréal [Quebećbec] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2008], ©2008.

xiv, 338 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Organization of age: age and old age in the Canadian and US Censuses, 1870-1901 -- Expression of age: age(mis)reporting in the Canadian and US censuses -- Ambiguity and discontinuity in the lives of elderly women -- Thresholds of old age among men -- Grandmothers and grandfathers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [305]-328) and index.