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.

Publication Statements

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

The Physical Object

Description:1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780773567986, 0773567984
oclc:ocn243586717
LC Classification:JV7220
Dewey Decimal:971

Settings -- Sources -- Transitions -- Immigrants in a settled society: the Maritimes -- French-Canadian migrations -- The coming of the Irish -- Immigrants in Montreal -- Life on the Ontario frontier -- Northward-bound to the lumbering and mining frontier -- The labouring and lower middle classes in Toronto -- Immigrant crossroads at Winnipeg -- The opening of the west -- Community-building: homesteading and bloc farming -- Storekeepers and small entrepreneurs -- Building and imagining western society -- Mining in the Rockies -- East and west do meet -- From dislocation to politics of protest -- The depression thirties and discriminatory forties -- Years of change and redefinition -- Multicultural lives in Canada.

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Canada Canada -- Histoire Canada -- History Dagelijks leven Einwanderung History HISTORY -- General. -- Canada Immigranten IMMIGRANTS Immigrants -- Histoire. -- Canada Immigrants -- History. -- Canada Kanada SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigrati…