A Nation of Immigrants: Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

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A Nation of Immigrants

Women, Workers, and Communities in Canadian History, 1840s-1960s

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 1998

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This collection of essays examines immigrants and racial-ethnic relations in Canada from the mid-nineteenth century to the post-1945 era.

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Iacovetta Franca :

Franca Iacovetta is a professor emerita of history at the University of Toronto.
Draper Paula :

Paula Draper, PhD, is a Toronto historian and specialist of memory and the Holocaust.Ventresca Robert :

Robert A. Ventresca is an assistant professor of History at King's College, University of Western Ontario.

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History Regional and National History North America Canada

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Preface
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TOPIC ONE. The Irish in Nineteenth-Century Canada: Class, Culture, and Conflict
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Introduction
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The Orange Order and Social Violence in Mid-Nineteenth Century Saint John
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Scott W. See

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

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TOPIC TWO. American Blacks in Nineteenth-Century Ontario: Challenging the Stereotypes
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The Black Population of Canada West on the Eve of the American Civil War: A Reassessment Based on the Manuscript Census of 1861
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Michael Wayne

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'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence7: Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham
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Howard Law

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Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality
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Jason H. Silverman

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TOPIC THREE. Settling the Canadian West: The 'Exotic' Continentals
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Introduction
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A Roumanian Pioneer
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Anne B. Woywitka

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The Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West
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James W. Darlington

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TOPIC FOUR. 'Women's Work': Paid Labour, Comrnunity-Building, and Protest
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Introduction
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'I Won't Be a Slave!7: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930
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Varpu Lindstrom

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Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community
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Paula J. Draper and Janice B. Karlinsky

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TOPIC FIVE. Men without Women: 'Bachelor7 Workers and Gendered Identities
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Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930
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Robert F. Harney

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Bachelor Workers
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Anthony B. Chan

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Bachelors, Boarding-Houses, and Blind Pigs: Gender Construction in a Multi-Ethnic Mining Camp, 1909-1920
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Nancy M. Forestell

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TOPIC SIX. Demanding Rights, Organizing for Change: Militants and Radicals
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Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods
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Ian Radforth

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Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912
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Ruth A. Frager

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Relief Strike: Immigrant Workers and the Great Depression in Crowland, Ontario, 1930-1935
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Carmela Patrias

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TOPIC SEVEN Encountering the 'Other7: Society and State Responses, 19.00s-1930s
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A Disgrace to 'Christian Canada": Protestant Foreign Missionary Concerns about the Treatment of South Asians in Canada, 1907-1940
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Ruth Compton Brouwer

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State Repression of Labour and the Left in Canada, 1914-1920: The Impact of the First World War
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Gregory S. Kealey

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The line must be drawn somewhere': Canada and Jewish Refugees, 1933-1939
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Irving Abella and Harold Troper

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TOPIC EIGHT. Regulating Minorities in 'Hot7 and 'Cold' War Contexts, 1939-1960s
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Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War
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Howard Palmer

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Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families
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Franca Iacovetta

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May 23, 1998

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9781442687271

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A Nation of Immigrants

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About this book

Author / Editor information

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Table of contents

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Introduction

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

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

Introduction

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

'Self-Reliance Is the True Road to Independence7: Ideology and the Ex-Slaves in Buxton and Chatham

Mary Ann Shadd and the Search for Equality

Introduction

A Roumanian Pioneer

The Ukrainian Impress on the Canadian West

Introduction

'I Won't Be a Slave!7: Finnish Domestics in Canada, 1911-1930

Abraham's Daughters: Women, Charity, and Power in the Canadian Jewish Community

Introduction

Men without Women: Italian Migrants in Canada, 1885-1930

Bachelor Workers

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

Introduction

Finnish Radicalism and Labour Activism in the Northern Ontario Woods

Sewing Solidarity: The Eaton's Strike of 1912

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

Introduction

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

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

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

Introduction

Ethnic Relations in Wartime: Nationalism and European Minorities in Alberta during the Second World War

Making 'New Canadians': Social Workers, Women, and the Reshaping of Immigrant Families

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