Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hoerder, Dirk.

Series:

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 5.

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 5

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Immigrants--Canada--History.

Immigrants.

Canada--History.

Canada.

Physical Description:

xiv, 375 p. ; 24 cm.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Montreal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Dirk Hoerder shows us that it is not shining railroad tracks or statesmen in Ottawa that make up the story of Canada but rather individual stories of life and labour - Caribbean women who care for children born in Canada, lonely prairie homesteaders, miners in Alberta and British Columbia, women labouring in factories, Chinese and Japanese immigrants carving out new lives in the face of hostility. Hoerder examines these individual experiences in Creating Societies, the first systematic overview of the total Canadian immigrant experience. Using letters, travel accounts, diaries, memoirs, and reminiscences, he brings the immigrant's experiences to life. Their writings, often recorded for grandchildren, neighbours, and sometimes a larger public, show how immigrant lives were entwined with the emerging Canadian society. Hoerder presents an important 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 the members of a different ethnic groups.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

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, 19205-1950S

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

Notes

Index

Index of Migrants

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0-7735-6798-4

OCLC:

243586717