In Mixed Company: Taverns and Public Life in Upper Canada

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Roberts, Julia, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Taverns (Inns)--Social aspects--Ontario--History.

Taverns (Inns).

Taverns (Inns)--Ontario--History.

Ontario--Social life and customs.

Ontario.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (264 p.) : 13 b&w photos, 1 table

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] UBC Press 2009

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In Mixed Company explores taverns as colonial public space and how men and women of diverse backgrounds � Native and newcomer, privileged and labouring, white and non-white � negotiated a place for themselves within them. The stories that emerge unsettle comfortable certainties about who belonged where in colonial society. Colonial taverns were places where labourers enjoyed libations with wealthy Aboriginal traders like Captain Thomas, who also treated a Scotsman to a small bowl of punch; where white soldiers rubbed shoulders with black colonists out to celebrate Emancipation Day; where English ladies and their small children sought refuge for a night. The records of the past tell stories of time spent in mixed company but also of the myriad, unequal ways that colonists found room in taverns and a place in Upper Canadian culture and society. Reconstructed from tavern-keepers' accounts, court records, diaries, travelogues, and letters, In Mixed Company is essential reading for tavern aficionados and anyone interested in the history of gender, race, and culture in Canadian or colonial society.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Illustrations

Preface

Introduction

Architecture, Design, and Material Settings

Households and Public Life in a Tavern-Keeper's Journal

Public Houses as Colonial Public Space

Regulation and Ritual in Everyday Public Life

Race and Space

Harry Jones, his Cronies, and the Haunts of Respectable Men

Public Life for Women in the Era of Separate Spheres

Afterword

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-7748-5867-2

0-7748-1575-2

0-7748-1577-9

OCLC:

1561175786