Research Catalog

Title

Riots in New Brunswick : Orange nativism and social violence in the 1840s / Scott W. See.

Author

See, Scott W., 1950-

Publication

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, ©1993.

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Details

Description

x, 266 pages : map; 24 cm

Summary

"During the mid to late 1840s, dramatic riots shook the communities of Woodstock, Fredericton, and Saint John. Irish-Catholic immigrants fought Protestant Orangemen ... This book is the first serious historical treatment of the bloody riots and the tangled events that led to them."--Page [i].

Series Statement

Social history of Canada, 0085-6207 ; 48

Uniform Title

Social history of Canada ; 48.

Subject

• 1800-1899
• Orangemen > New Brunswick > History > 19th century
• Nativism
• Riots > New Brunswick > History > 19th century
• Irish > New Brunswick > History > 19th century
• Catholics > New Brunswick > History > 19th century
• Catholics
• Irish
• Nativism
• Orangemen
• Riots
• Social conditions
• Orangemen > New Brunswick
• Irish > New Brunswick
• Catholics > New Brunswick
• Unruhen
• Orangemen > New Jersey > New Brunswick > 19th century
• Riots > New Jersey > New Brunswick > 19th century
• Irish > New Jersey > New Brunswick > 19th century
• Catholics > New Jersey > New Brunswick > 19th century
• Geschichte 1840-1850
• New Brunswick > Social conditions > 19th century
• New Brunswick
• Canada, New Brunswick > History
• Canada, New Brunswick > Minorities
• New Brunswick (N.J.) > Social conditions > 19th century

Genre/Form

History

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-258) and index.

Contents

pt. 1. The Context -- 1. New Brunswick in mid-century -- 2. Communities in transition: Saint John, Fredericton, and Woodstock -- pt. 2. The Protagonists -- 3. The Irish-Catholics: Immigration and response -- 4. The Orange Order: Institutionalized nativism -- pt. 3. The Riots -- 5. The hinterland: The Woodstock riot of 1847 -- 6. The capital: Confrontations in Fredericton -- 7. The ports: Orange-Green disturbances in Saint John and Portland -- 8. Social violence peaks: The York Point riot of 1849 -- pt. 4. The Perspective -- 9. Aftermath: The pacific fifties -- 10. A tumultuous decade -- Appendix A: 'The Battle of York Point, 1849, St. John N.B.' -- Appendix B: New Brunswick immigration and primary Orange lodges, 1831-55.

ISBN

• 0802029442
• 9780802029447
• 0802077706
• 9780802077707

LCCN

94137638

OCLC

• ocm28499778
• 28499778
• SCSB-2010552

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library