Canada's Victorian oil town : the transformation of Petrolia from a resource town into a Victorian community /

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burr, Christina Ann, 1959-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2006
Series:desLibris. Books collection.
Subjects:
Group identity > Ontario > Petrolia > History.
Community life > Ontario > Petrolia > History.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects > Ontario > Petrolia > History.
Identité collective > Ontario > Petrolia > Histoire.
Communauté > Ontario > Petrolia > Histoire.
Pétrole > Industrie et commerce > Aspect social > Ontario > Petrolia > Histoire.
HISTORY > Canada > General.
Community life.
Group identity.
Petroleum industry and trade > Social aspects.
Petrolia (Ont.) > History.
Ontario > Petrolia.
Electronic books.
History.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : colonization, culture, and the making of Canada's Victorian oil town
  • 1. "Oil mania" : colonial land policy, land speculators, and settlement in Enniskillen Township, 1830s-60s
  • 2. "Oil smellers" and "professors" : science, colonization, and the oil boom in mid-nineteenth-century Enniskillen Township
  • 3. The petrolia discovery and the making of an oil resource community
  • 4. A respectable Victorian town : public space, voluntary associations, and the creation of a culture of refined sociability
  • 5. "Some adventures of the boys" : Enniskillen Township's "foreign drillers," imperialism, and colonial discourse
  • 6. "Canada's Victorian oil town" : history, public memory, and community.

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