Creating societies : immigrant 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."--Jacket

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Hoerder, Dirk
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
Colección:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.
Temas:
Immigrants > Canada > History.
Immigrants > Canada > Histoire.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Emigration & Immigration.
Immigrants
Einwanderung
Immigranten.
Dagelijks leven.
Canada > History.
Canada > Histoire.
Canada
Kanada
Electronic books.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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