Full Description
This is a study of British colliers who were recruited to work in Vancouver Island collieries in the 19th century. It examines the reasons for their choice of Vancouver Island as a settlement colony and the extent to which their expectations were met. This group has been a touchstone for historians writing of British Columbian radicalism; the origins of west coast socialism are frequently attributed to them. Belshaw aims to demonstrate the breadth of cultural survival - the extent to which the histories of Britain and British Columbia became intertwined - and also the ways in which local conditions produced a purely local cultural response to the emergent industrial order. The British miners are studied as emigrants, rather than exclusively as immigrants. The author places them within British, as well as Canadian, history by contrasting developments on the west coast of North America with contemporary events in British coalfields; by careful examination of the demographic record; and by systematically reassessing the workplace and its implications for the community it supported.
Contents
On the edge of the Empire; Recruiting a workforce; The British miners and their kin; Work; Wages; Bibles, booze, ballgames, books and brass bands; The mobile frontier; The British miners, race and a radical tradition.
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