Creating Societies: Immigrant Lives in Canada Book

	Preface
	Introduction
Pt. 1	Contexts	3
1	Settings	5
2	Sources	15
3	Transitions	27
Pt. 2	The Maritimes and the St. Lawrence Valley	37
4	Immigrants in a Settled Society: the Maritimes	39
5	French-Canadian Migrations	49
6	The Coming of the Irish	58
Pt. 3	Urban Life, Farming, and Lumbering in Central Canada	69
7	Immigrants in Montreal	71
8	Life on the Ontario Frontier	85
9	Northward-Bound to the Lumbering and Mining Frontier	96
10	The Labouring and Lower Middle Classes in Toronto	105
Pt. 4	The Prairies: Labourers, Settlers, Entrepreneurs	119
11	Immigrant Crossroads at Winnipeg	121
12	The Opening of the West	137
13	Community-Building: Homesteading and Bloc Farming	151
14	Storekeepers and Small Entrepreneurs	176
15	Building and Imagining Western Society	190
Pt. 5	The Rockies and the Pacific Coast	205
16	Mining in the Rockies	207
17	East and West Do Meet	218
Pt. 6	Discrimination and Exclusion, 1920s-1950s	237
18	From Dislocation to Politics of Protest	239
19	The Depression Thirties and Discriminatory Forties	259
Pt. 7	Perspectives: From Many Cultures to Multiculturalism	279
20	Years of Change and Redefinition	281
21	Multicultural Lives in Canada	295
	Notes	309
	Index	365
	Index of Migrants	373