Promoters, planters, and pioneers : the course and context of Belgian settlement in Western Canada /

Promoters, planters, and pioneers : the course and context of Belgian settlement in Western Canada /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Jaenen, Cornelius J., author.
Imprint:	Calgary, Alberta, Canada : University of Calgary Press, [2011]
Description:	1 online resource (xii, 348 pages)
Language:	English French
Series:	The West series ; 4 West series (Calgary, Alta.) ; 4.
Subject:	Belgians -- Canada, Western -- History. Immigrants -- Canada, Western -- History. Frontier and pioneer life -- Canada, Western. Frontier and pioneer life. Belgians. Emigration and immigration. Immigrants. Canada, Western -- Emigration and immigration. Belgium -- Emigration and immigration. Belgium. Western Canada. Electronic books. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12648811

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ISBN:	9781552384954 1552384950 9781552385708 1552385701 9781552382585 1552382583 1280127082 9781280127083 9781552385715 155238571X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 309-335) and index. Includes some text in French. Online resource; title from PDF title page (University of Calgary Press Web site; viewed 06/02/2020).
Summary:	Canada's first Immigration Act (1869) included Belgium among the "preferred countries" from which immigrants should be sought, but unlike many other European countries, Belgium did not encourage its nationals to emigrate to relieve economic, demographic, and social crises. Belgian officials took a strong interest in their emigrants, monitoring the conditions of settlement. The result was a resourceful body of settlers adaptable to both Anglophone and Francophone communities and adept at promotion and raising of capital. In the 1880s, the first wave of immigration consisted mainly of farmers to southern Manitoba and miners to Vancouver Island. A second wave after 1896, facilitated by a direct steamship link to Antwerp, brought more miners, as well as orchard planters to the Okanagan, sugar beet farmers to Alberta, and dairymen to Manitoba. World War I was followed by a further wave of agriculturally oriented settlement, and World War II by a mainly urban and skill-oriented cohort
Other form:	Print version: Jaenen, Cornelius J. Promoters, planters, and pioneers. Calgary : University of Calgary Press, ©2011 The West series, 1922-6519 ; no. 4 9781552382585

Table of Contents:

The View from Belgium
The Promise and Challenge of the West
The Manitoba Base
Westward onto the Prairies
To the Foothills of Alberta
The Mining Frontier and Pacific Rim
Language, Religion, and Education
Economic, Political and Military Activity
Ethnicity and Culture.