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• Title:Creating societies : immigrant lives in Canada / Dirk Hoerder.
  
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• Author/Creator:Hoerder, Dirk.
  
• Published/Created:Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.
  

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  • Location:KOERNER LIBRARY stacks (Floor 1)Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC25 .H64 2000
    
  • Number of Items:3
    
  • Status:Available
    

  • Location:OKANAGAN LIBRARY stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: FC25 .H63 2000
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Immigrants--Canada--History.
  Canada--History.
  
• Description:xiv, 375 p. ; 24 cm.
  
• Series:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two.
  
• Summary:"Dirk Hoerder presents a new picture of the emerging Canadian identity, dispelling the Canadian myth of a dichotomy between national unity and ethnic diversity and emphasizing the long-standing interaction between members of different ethnic groups."--BOOK JACKET.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:0773518827 (bound) :
  
• Contents:Pt. 1. Contexts
  1. Settings
  2. Sources
  3. Transitions
  Pt. 2. Maritimes and the St. Lawrence Valley
  4. Immigrants in a Settled Society: the Maritimes
  5. French-Canadian Migrations
  6. Coming of the Irish
  Pt. 3. Urban Life, Farming, and Lumbering in Central Canada
  7. Immigrants in Montreal
  8. Life on the Ontario Frontier
  9. Northward-Bound to the Lumbering and Mining Frontier
  10. Labouring and Lower Middle Classes in Toronto
  Pt. 4. Prairies: Labourers, Settlers, Entrepreneurs
  11. Immigrant Crossroads at Winnipeg
  12. Opening of the West
  13. Community-Building: Homesteading and Bloc Farming
  14. Storekeepers and Small Entrepreneurs
  15. Building and Imagining Western Society
  Pt. 5. Rockies and the Pacific Coast
  16. Mining in the Rockies
  17. East and West Do Meet
  Pt. 6. Discrimination and Exclusion, 1920s-1950s
  18. From Dislocation to Politics of Protest
  19. Depression Thirties and Discriminatory Forties
  Pt. 7. Perspectives: From Many Cultures to Multiculturalism
  20. Years of Change and Redefinition
  21. Multicultural Lives in Canada.