Research Catalog

Title

Colonization and community : the Vancouver Island coalfield and the making of the British Columbian working class / John Douglas Belshaw.

Author

Belshaw, John Douglas

Publication

Montréal ; Ithaca : McGill-Queen's University Press, c2002.

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Details

Description

xv, 320 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.

Summary

"In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class: the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast proletariat. By connecting the story of Vancouver Island to the larger story of Victorian industrialization, he delineates what was distinctive and what was common about the lot of the settler society. Belshaw breaks new ground, challenging the easy assumptions of transferred British political traditions, analyzing the colonial at the household level, and revealing the emergent communities of Vancouver Island as the cradle of British Columbian working-class culture."--Jacket

Series Statement

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ; 15

Uniform Title

McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two 15.

Subject

• Coal miners > British Columbia > Vancouver Island > History
• Working class > British Columbia > Vancouver Island > History
• British > British Columbia > Vancouver Island > History
• Coal mines and mining > Social aspects > History. > British Columbia > Vancouver Island
• Ethnology > British Columbia > Vancouver Island
• Travailleurs > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver, Île de > Histoire
• Mineurs de charbon > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver, Île de > Histoire
• Britanniques > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver, Île de > Histoire
• Charbon > Mines et extraction > Aspect social > Histoire. > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver, Île de
• Ethnologie > Colombie-Britannique > Vancouver, Île de
• Vancouver Island (B.C.) > History
• Vancouver, Île de (C.-B.) > Histoire

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [267]-308) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction -- Mining Coal on the Edge of the Empire -- The Emigrant British Miners and Their Kin -- The Immigrant British Miners and Their Kin -- Work and Wages -- Conflicts in the Colonial Setting -- Mobility and Identity -- Building a Culture -- Conclusions.

ISBN

• 0773524029 (acid-free paper)
• 0773524037 (pbk. : acid-free paper)

LCCN

^^2003464335

OCLC

• 49351154
• SCSB-11147543

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library