Research Catalog

Title

Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons : British remittance men in the Canadian west / Mark Zuehlke.

Author

Zuehlke, Mark, 1955-

Publication

Vancouver : Whitecap Books, c1994.

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Details

Description

vii, 211 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Remittance men" was a term used for young British men who settled in Canada and who were mostly "of aristocratic or upper-middle-class background, cultured, and supported by regular allowances sent to them by family back in Britain. It was the allowance that earned them the nickname of remittance men."--Pref.

Alternative Title

Scoundrels, dreamers and second sons.

Subject

• Remittance men > Canada, Western
• British > Canada, Western > History
• Immigrants > Canada, Western > History
• Gentry > Great Britain > History
• Immigrants entretenus par leur famille > Canada (Ouest)
• Britanniques > Canada (Ouest) > Histoire
• Immigrants > Canada (Ouest) > Histoire
• Gentry > Grande-Bretagne > Histoire
• Canada, Western > Emigration and immigration > History
• Great Britain > Emigration and immigration > History
• Canada (Ouest) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire
• Grande-Bretagne > Émigration et immigration > Histoire

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

1. The plight of gentlemen -- 2. Travelling like a gentleman -- 3. Westward ho -- 4. By Jove! This will be wizard! -- 5. Oh I say! How deucedly unsporting! -- 6. Civilizing wilderness: the beautiful art -- 7. Cannington Manor -- 8. Walhachin -- 9. Adventures on the prairie -- 10. Roughing it with style -- 11. The hazardous undertaking -- 12. A wasted youth?

ISBN

1551101971

LCCN

cn^94910419^

OCLC

• 30664135
• SCSB-10692400

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library