I'm a sucker for this sort of books (that and "documentary history" books), and it's true they're a bit rare in English. I might well try those two.

Aside for that sort of books for New France, I've read mostly some dealing with daily life in France in various periods (many books, some on the middle-Ages a mite too scholarly for my taste), but a few years ago I got my hands on one about daily life in Venice which, if a bit scholarly, was especially interesting for its Upstairs/Downstairs comparisons (more so than a series of similar books on Versailles written in French by an American scholar that are extremely dry and technical). I have another that deals more specifically with women's daily life (in the period where most Venetian noble girls were extraneous and shipped to convents).

I find that books like this make an excellent complement to narrative history books in the vein of Norwhich, that often leaves you with the vaguest or most superficial impressions of how people lived or thought in the period they describe (that was true of his Byzantine trilogy, though his book on Venice is especially thin on this aspect for a "mass audience" narrative history, IRRC).