Conclusion

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Colonization, Culture, and The Making of Canada’s Victorian Oil Town 3
5. “Oil Mania”: Colonial Land Policy, Land Speculators, and Settlement in Enniskillen Township, 1830s–60s 16
6. “Oil Smellers” and “Professors”: Science, Colonization, and The Oil Boom in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Enniskillen Township 54
7. The Petrolia Discovery and the Making of an Oil Resource Community 85
8. A Respectable Victorian Town: Public Space, Voluntary Associations, and the Creation of a Culture of Refined Sociability 123
9. “Some Adventures of the Boys”: Enniskillen Township’s “Foreign Drillers,” Imperialism, and Colonial Discourse 158
10. “Canada’s Victorian Oil Town”: History, Public Memory, and Community 189
11. Conclusion 237
12. Notes 245
13. Bibliography 273
14. Index 289