9 Wind, Error, and Providence: Shipwrecks in New France

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1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Figures xi
4. Acknowledgments xv
5. Introduction: Framing an Accidental Past 1
6. PART ONE / EQUITY
7. 1 “Vahinko!”: Finnish Canadian Socialists Making Sense of Accidental Fire 33
8. 2 The Accidental Underground: Death and Injury in Ontario’s Mining Industry 61
9. 3 Coroner Morton Shulman versus Dr Edward Shouldice: Medical Malpractice in 1960s Canada 89
10. 4 Pedalling Acceptable Losses: Narratives of Cyclist Accidents in Vancouver, BC 113
11. PART TWO / PRECAUTION
12. 5 Life and Death in the Building of Montreal’s Victoria Bridge, 1854–1860 143
13. 6 A “Lack of System in Their Work”: Risk, Injury, and Labour in the Grenfell Medical Mission of Northern Newfoundland and Labrador, 1893–1914 170
14. 7 An Allowance for Accidents: Alberta’s 1908 Workmen’s Compensation Legislation 197
15. 8 “Don’t Shoot Crooked Chute”: Memorializing Death and Mediating Risk on Ontario’s Petawawa River 225
16. PART THREE / NARRATIVES
17. 9 Wind, Error, and Providence: Shipwrecks in New France 253
18. 10 Accidental History and Manitoulin Island, ca. 1830–1960: Indigenous and Settler Experience 281
19. 11 An Accident’s Afterlife: Childhood, Disability, Maternalism, and Rehabilitation 313
20. 12 Kitchen-Table Surgery: Rural Risk and Accidental Care in Early Twentieth-Century General Practice 342
21. Conclusion 367
22. Contributors 371
23. Index 373