Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada /
Hoerder, Dirk.
Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) - McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 5 .
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.
9780773567986
Immigrants--History.--Canada
Electronic Books.
JV7220 / .C743 1999
Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder. - Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, (c)1999. - 1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages) - McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 5 .
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.
9780773567986
Immigrants--History.--Canada
Electronic Books.
JV7220 / .C743 1999