Contents

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE: CONTEXTS

1 Settings

2 Sources

3 Transitions

PART TWO: THE MARITIMES AND THE ST LAWRENCE VALLEY

4 Immigrants in a Settled Society: the Maritimes

5 French-Canadian Migrations

6 The Coming of the Irish

PART THREE: 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 The Labouring and Lower Middle Classes in Toronto

PART FOUR: THE PRAIRIES: LABOURERS, SETTLERS, ENTREPRENEURS

11 Immigrant Crossroads at Winnipeg

12 The Opening of the West

13 Community-Building: Homesteading and Bloc Farming

14 Storekeepers and Small Entrepreneurs

15 Building and Imagining Western Society

PART FIVE: THE ROCKIES AND THE PACIFIC COAST

16 Mining in the Rockies

17 East and West Do Meet

PART SIX: DISCRIMINATION AND EXCLUSION, 1920S–1950S

18 From Dislocation to Politics of Protest

19 The Depression Thirties and Discriminatory Forties

PART SEVEN: PERSPECTIVES: FROM MANY CULTURES TO MULTICULTURALISM

20 Years of Change and Redefinition

21 Multicultural Lives in Canada

Notes

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