Creating societies: immigrant lives in Canada

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"Dirk Hoerder presents a 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 members of different ethnic groups."--Jacket

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Full title :Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder.

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Publication Date:2000.

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Publisher(s):Mcgill-Queen's University Press
Place of Publication:Montreal
Language:eng
Publication Date:2000.

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Description:xiv, 375 pages ; : 24 cm

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ISBN:0773518827, 9780773518827
oclc:ocm42009540
LC Classification:JV7220
Dewey Decimal:971

pt. 1. Contexts -- 1. Settings -- 2. Sources -- 3. Transitions -- pt. 2. The Maritimes and the St. Lawrence Valley -- 4. Immigrants in a Settled Society: the Maritimes -- 5. French-Canadian Migrations -- 6. The Coming of the Irish -- pt. 3. Urban Life, Farming, and Lumbering in Central Canada -- 7. Immigrants in Montreal -- 8. Life on the Ontario Frontier -- 9. Northward-Bound to the Lumbering and Mining Frontier -- 10. The Labouring and Lower Middle Classes in Toronto -- pt. 4. The Prairies: Labourers, Settlers, Entrepreneurs -- 11. Immigrant Crossroads at Winnipeg -- 12. The Opening of the West -- 13. Community-Building: Homesteading and Bloc Farming -- 14. Storekeepers and Small Entrepreneurs -- 15. Building and Imagining Western Society -- pt. 5. The Rockies and the Pacific Coast -- 16. Mining in the Rockies -- 17. East and West Do Meet -- pt. 6. Discrimination and Exclusion, 1920s-1950s -- 18. From Dislocation to Politics of Protest -- 19. The Depression Thirties and Discriminatory Forties -- pt. 7. Perspectives: From Many Cultures to Multiculturalism -- 20. Years of Change and Redefinition -- 21. Multicultural Lives in Canada.