Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- Chapter One: The Plight of the Gentlemen -- Chapter Two: Travelling Like a Gentleman -- Chapter Three: Westward Ho -- Chapter Four: By Jove! This will be Wizard! -- Chapter Five: Oh I Say! How Deucedly Unsporting! -- Chapter Six: Civilizing Wilderness -- The Beautiful Art -- Chapter Seven: Cannington Manor -- Chapter Eight: Walhachin -- Chapter Nine: Duncan -- Canada's Most English Town -- Chapter Ten: Adventures on the Prairie -- Chapter Eleven: Roughing It With Style -- Chapter Twelve: The Hazardous Undertaking -- Chapter Thirteen: A Wasted Youth?
Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Author Information
Summary
#x93;#x91;Remittance man' was meant to be a disparaging term. It reflected the fact that these young men had been sent to the colonies to spare their families continuing embarrassment or shame. At home they had been scoundrels, dreamers, and second sons without future prospects. Perhaps in#x85;the Canadian West they would make something of themselves. If they didn't, at least they would be far enough away that little disgrace would fall upon their families." #x97;Mark Zuehlke Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from
