Colonization and Community : The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbian Working Class
ISBN: 9780773570405
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: Business/ Management; History;

In the nineteenth century coal-miners imported from Europe, Asia, and eastern North America burrowed beneath the Vancouver Island towns of Nanaimo, Wellington, and Cumberland. No group was as numerous and influential in this enterprise as the hundreds o

John Douglas Belshaw is on faculty at Thompson Rivers University - Open Learning, a consultant to the post-secondary sector, and the author of several books on BC history.

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