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