Title: Creating societies :
Authors: Hoerder, Dirk.
Date: 2000
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press,
Physical description: xiv, 375 pages ; 24 cm.
Language: English
Abstract: "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.
Contents: Contexts. Settings. Sources. Transitions -- The Maritimes and the St. Lawrence Valley. Immigrants in a Settled Society: the Maritimes. French-Canadian Migrations. The Coming of the Irish -- Urban Life, Farming, and Lumbering in Central Canada. Immigrants in Montreal. Life on the Ontario Frontier. Northward-Bound to the Lumbering and Mining Frontier. The Labouring and Lower Middle Classes in Toronto -- The Prairies: Labourers, Settlers, Entrepreneurs. Immigrant Crossroads at Winnipeg. The Opening of the West. Community-Building: Homesteading and Bloc Farming. Storekeepers and Small Entrepreneurs. Building and Imagining Western Society -- The Rockies and the Pacific Coast. Mining in the Rockies. East and West Do Meet -- Discrimination and Exclusion, 1920s-1950s. From Dislocation to Politics of Protest. The Depression Thirties and Discriminatory Forties -- Perspectives: From Many Cultures to Multiculturalism. Years of Change and Redefinition. Multicultural Lives in Canada.
Subject headings (LCSH): Canada--History.; Immigrants--Canada--History.