Title Colonization and community : the Vancouver Island coalfield and the making of the British Columbian working class / John Douglas Belshaw

Published Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 320 pages) : illustrations, maps Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 15 McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 15 Summary "In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class: the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-308) and index Notes English Print version record Subject Coal miners -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History Working class -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History British -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island -- History Ethnology -- British Columbia -- Vancouver Island HISTORY -- Canada -- General. British Coal miners Coal mines and mining -- Social aspects Ethnology Working class Kohle Arbeiterklasse Geschichte Mineurs de charbon -- Canada -- Colombie-Britannique (Canada) -- Vancouver, Île de (Canada) -- Histoire. SUBJECT Vancouver Island (B.C.) -- History Subject British Columbia -- Vancouver Island Vancouver Island British Columbia Vancouver, Île de (Canada) -- Histoire. Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book LC no. 2003464335 ISBN 9780773570405 0773570403 1283529734 9781283529730 9786613842183 6613842184

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