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Canada's Age of Industry, 1849-1896
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Authors/contributors
- Cross, Michael S. (Editor)
- Kealey, Gregory S. (Editor)
Title
Canada's Age of Industry, 1849-1896
Abstract
...This volume presents a series of scholarly articles which range from an essay by Gregory Kealey on Toronto's Industrial Revolution in the last half of the nineteenth century to a fascinating study by Wendy Mitchener of the Women's Christian Temperance Union, "A Study of Nineteenth-Century Feminism." Also included are examinations of the working class, violence and protest, social structure and government encouragement of industrial development from 1849 to 1896. --Publisher's description
Series
Readings in Canadian social history
Volume
3
# of Volumes
5
Place
Toronto
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Date
1982
# of Pages
229 pages
Language
English
ISBN
978-0-7710-2458-0
Accessed
8/18/25, 8:50 PM
Extra
OCLC: 9277514
Notes
Contents: I. Economic overview. Toronto's industrial revolution, 1850-1892 / Gregory S. Kealey -- The national policy and the industrialization of the Maritimes / T.W. Acheson. II. Social Structure. Land, population, and social change: The "critical years" in rural Canada West / David Gagan. III. The working class. The culture of control / Bryan D. Palmer. IV. Violence and protest. Cavalry or police: Keeping the peace on two adjacent frontiers, 1870-1900 / Desmond Morton. V. Social control. The WCTU: "For God, home, and native land": A study of nineteenth-century feminism / Wendy Mitchinson. VI. Women. One hundred and two muffled voices: Canada's industrial women in the 1880's / Susan Trofimenkoff.
Citation
Cross, M. S., & Kealey, G. S. (Eds.). (1982). Canada’s Age of Industry, 1849-1896 (Vol. 3). McClelland and Stewart. https://archive.org/details/canadasageofindu0000unse/mode/2up
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