In British Columbia the 1891 census of Canada coincided with the largest and most politically consequential strike recorded in the province to that time. The Wellington strike was a drawn-out dispute over the refusal of one of the most important capitalists in British Columbia, the Dunsmuir interests on Vancouver Island, to recognize the Mines and Mine Labourers’ Protective Association. The authors use this combination of events to examine some aspects of the relationship between industrial growth and social relations in nineteenth-century Nanaimo. This community, a hitherto obscure outpost of industry and empire, was being transformed into a place where class, ethnic/racial, and gender roles took on an appropriate and respectable order.En ...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
Since the 1970s, historians of British Columbia representing various ideological schools and methodo...
The scope of this work has been limited to a discussion of employer-employee relationships in the fi...
In British Columbia the 1891 census of Canada coincided with the largest and most politically conseq...
Coal mining on Vancouver Island was a conjunctural point for two complementary systems of dispossess...
This paper challenges the long-standing view that aboriginal people were bystanders in the economic ...
The Dominion government appointed a Royal Commission in April 1903 to investigate the causes of stri...
For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonial...
Mining frontiers have rarely attracted the attention of geographers because of the transitory nature...
In recent years, investigations on intermarriage between Aboriginal people or First Nations and the ...
This thesis examines Indian-European relations on the mining frontier in British Columbia. In the mi...
Rossland, British Columbia, like many other Kootenay towns was the child of a turn-of-the-century lo...
Coal mining in nineteenth century British Columbia was confined almost exclusively to the tidewater ...
This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during th...
Foreign ownership and control of major segments of the Canadian economy today, according to many pro...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
Since the 1970s, historians of British Columbia representing various ideological schools and methodo...
The scope of this work has been limited to a discussion of employer-employee relationships in the fi...
In British Columbia the 1891 census of Canada coincided with the largest and most politically conseq...
Coal mining on Vancouver Island was a conjunctural point for two complementary systems of dispossess...
This paper challenges the long-standing view that aboriginal people were bystanders in the economic ...
The Dominion government appointed a Royal Commission in April 1903 to investigate the causes of stri...
For indigenous communities throughout the globe, mining has been a historical forerunner of colonial...
Mining frontiers have rarely attracted the attention of geographers because of the transitory nature...
In recent years, investigations on intermarriage between Aboriginal people or First Nations and the ...
This thesis examines Indian-European relations on the mining frontier in British Columbia. In the mi...
Rossland, British Columbia, like many other Kootenay towns was the child of a turn-of-the-century lo...
Coal mining in nineteenth century British Columbia was confined almost exclusively to the tidewater ...
This dissertation examines the evolution of the mining industry in three British dominions during th...
Foreign ownership and control of major segments of the Canadian economy today, according to many pro...
The search for gold is the single most dramatic event of British Columbia’s early history. Although ...
Since the 1970s, historians of British Columbia representing various ideological schools and methodo...
The scope of this work has been limited to a discussion of employer-employee relationships in the fi...