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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

An examination of the social, political, and demographic history of British miners and their households on Vancouver Island in the 19th century.

Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, this title shows how biology, politics, and history conspire with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society.

Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way.

Takes a look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. This book investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, and the archetypal west coast proletariat.