Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder.

By:

Hoerder, Dirk [Author]

Material type: Text

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780773567986

Subject(s):

Immigrants -- Canada -- History

Genre/Form:

Electronic Books.

LOC classification:

JV7220 .C743 1999

Online resources:

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Contents:

Sources -- Transitions -- Immigrants in a settled society: the Maritimes -- French-Canadian migrations -- The coming of the Irish -- Immigrants in Montreal -- Life on the Ontario frontier -- Northward-bound to the lumbering and mining frontier -- The labouring and lower middle classes in Toronto -- Immigrant crossroads at Winnipeg -- The opening of the west -- Community-building: homesteading and bloc farming -- Storekeepers and small entrepreneurs -- Building and imagining western society -- Mining in the Rockies -- East and west do meet -- From dislocation to politics of protest -- The depression thirties and discriminatory forties -- Years of change and redefinition -- Multicultural lives in Canada.

Review: "Dirk Hoerder presents a new picture of the emerging Canadian identity, dispelling the Canadian myth of a dichotomy between national unity and ethnic diversity and emphasizing the long-standing interaction between members of different ethnic groups."--BOOK JACKET.

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Includes bibliographies and index.

Settings -- Sources -- Transitions -- Immigrants in a settled society: the Maritimes -- French-Canadian migrations -- The coming of the Irish -- Immigrants in Montreal -- Life on the Ontario frontier -- Northward-bound to the lumbering and mining frontier -- The labouring and lower middle classes in Toronto -- Immigrant crossroads at Winnipeg -- The opening of the west -- Community-building: homesteading and bloc farming -- Storekeepers and small entrepreneurs -- Building and imagining western society -- Mining in the Rockies -- East and west do meet -- From dislocation to politics of protest -- The depression thirties and discriminatory forties -- Years of change and redefinition -- Multicultural lives in Canada.

"Dirk Hoerder presents a new picture of the emerging Canadian identity, dispelling the Canadian myth of a dichotomy between national unity and ethnic diversity and emphasizing the long-standing interaction between members of different ethnic groups."--BOOK JACKET.

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