Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface ix
4. TOPIC ONE. The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Class, Culture, and Conflict
5. Introduction 3
6. The Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John 5
7. St. Patrick's Day Parades in Nineteenth- Century Toronto: A Study of Immigrant Adjustment and Elite Control 35
8. TOPIC TWO. American Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Challenging the Stereotypes
9. Introduction 55
10. The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861 58
11. 'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence7: Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham 82
12. Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality 101
13. TOPIC THREE. Settling the Canadian West: The 'Exotic' Continentals
14. Introduction 115
15. A Roumanian Pioneer 119
16. The Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West 128
17. TOPIC FOUR. 'Women's Work': Paid Labour, Comrnunity-Building, and Protest
18. Introduction 163
19. 'I Won't Be a Slave!7: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930 166
20. Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community 186
21. TOPIC FIVE. Men without Women: 'Bachelor7 Workers and Gendered Identities
22. Introduction 203
23. Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930 206
24. Bachelor Workers 231
25. Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction in a Multi-Ethnic Mining Camp, 1909-1920 251
26. TOPIC SIX. Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals
27. Introduction 291
28. Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods 293
29. Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912 316
30. Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935 322
31. TOPIC SEVEN Encountering the 'Other7: Society and State Responses, 19.00s-1930s
32. Introduction 359
33. A Disgrace to 'Christian Canada": Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940 361
34. State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War 384
35. The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939 412
36. TOPIC EIGHT. Regulating Minorities in 'Hot7 and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939-1960s
37. Introduction 447
38. Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War 451
39. Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families 482