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A Nation of Immigrants : Readings in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

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This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the chapters have been previously published, the editors have also commissioned original contributions on understudied topics in the field.

The readings highlight the social history of immigrants, their pre-migration traditions as well as migration strategies and Canadian experiences, their work and family worlds, and their political, cultural, and community lives. They explore the public display of ethno-religious rituals, race riots, and union protests; the quasi-private worlds of all-male boarding-houses and of female domestics toiling in isolated workplaces; and the intrusive power that government and even well-intentioned social reformers have wielded over immigrants deemed dangerous or otherwise in need of supervision.

Organized partly chronologically and largely by theme, the topical sections will offer students a glimpse into Canada's complex immigrant past. In order to facilitate classroom discussion, each section contains an introduction that contextualizes the readings and raises some questions for debate. A Nation of Immigrants will be useful both in specialized courses in Canadian immigration history and in courses on broader themes in Canadian history.

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Contents
Page 6-9

Preface
Page 10-17

TOPIC ONE: The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Class, Culture, and Conflict
Page 18-69

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-----The Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John
Page 20-49

-----St. Patrick's Day Parades in Nineteenth-Century Toronto: A Study of Immigrant Adjustment and Elite Control
Page 50-69

TOPIC TWO: American Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Challenging the Stereotypes
Page 70-129

-----The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861
Page 73-96

-----'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence': Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham
Page 97-115

-----Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality
Page 116-129

TOPIC THREE: Settling the Canadian West: The 'Exotic' Continentals
Page 130-177

-----A Roumanian Pioneer
Page 134-142

-----The Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West
Page 143-177

TOPIC FOUR: 'Women's Work': Paid Labour, Community-Building, and Protest
Page 178-217

-----'I Won't Be a Slave!': Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911–1930
Page 181-200

-----Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community
Page 201-217

TOPIC FIVE: Men without Women: 'Bachelor' Workers and Gendered Identities
Page 218-305

-----Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885–1930
Page 221-245

-----Bachelor Workers
Page 246-265

-----Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction in a Multi-Ethnic Mining Camp, 1909–1920
Page 266-305

TOPIC SIX: Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals
Page 306-373

-----Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods
Page 308-330

-----Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912
Page 331-336

-----Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930–1935
Page 337-373

TOPIC SEVEN: Encountering the 'Other': Society and State Responses, 1900s–1930s
Page 374-461

-----A Disgrace to 'Christian Canada': Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907–1940
Page 376-398

-----State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914–1920: The Impact of the First World War
Page 399-426

-----'The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933–1939
Page 427-461

TOPIC EIGHT: Regulating Minorities in 'Hot' and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939–1960s
Page 462-528

-----Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War
Page 466-496

-----Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families
Page 497-528

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Title

A Nation of Immigrants

Subtitle

Readings in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

Contributors

Robert A. Ventresca,
Franca Iacovetta,
Paula Draper,
Robert Ventresca

Publisher

University of Toronto Press

Publication date

1998-05-23

Pages

xiv, 513 p.

Print ISBN

9780802074829

eBook ISBN

9781442687271

LC Subjects

Immigrants - Canada - History., Minorities - Canada - History., Working class - Canada - History., Women - Canada - History., Canada - Ethnic relations., Canada - Race relations., Canada - Social life and customs.

Audience

Professional and scholarly

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