The Conference Health in Families, Healthy Families: Gendered Explorations has been organized by the International Sociological Association Research Committee on Family Studies.

The Conference has been held in Toronto from May 8-11.. Dr. Lorne Tepperman (CCRI Team Leader, University of Toronto) was co-organizer of this conference.

On May 9 from 11:45am to 1:00pm, there has been a session on Canadian Censuses and Family Research.  This session has been organized by Dr. Peter Baskerville (CCRI Team Leader, University of Victoria), and has been chaired by Dr. Gordon Darroch (CCRI Team Leader, York University).

Presenters for this session were:

- Dr. Chad Gaffield

Title of Paper: The Canadian Century Research Infrastructure & Canadian Research

- Terry Quinlan

Title of Paper: Using Census Records to Advance Genetic Research

- Dr. Peter Baskerville

Title of Paper: The changing material welfare of women in urban Canada in the late 19th century