10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «REMITTANCE MEN»
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remittance men in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
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1
Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British
Remittance Men ...
With a hint of nostalgia for the pre-war era that harboured these colourful outcasts of a diminishing empire, Mark Zuehlke fondly recounts the often humourous and sometimes dismal efforts of "good breeding" in Canada's West.
2
The Range
Men: Pioneer Ranchers of Alberta
No story of the early times in Alberta, of its cowmen and their lives, would be
complete without a description of the remittance men, the sons of the "good"
families who were shipped into the new land, ofttimes because when once there,
they ...
3
Where the Mountains Meet the Prairies: A History of Waterton ...
A good deal has been written about the imprint left on the cultural and economic
life of southern Alberta by the English "remittance men," who were important part
of Pacific Northwest history. ames Willard Schultz Pa ers, Collection 10. l P so ...
4
Marmalade & whiskey: British
remittance men in the West
This is the little-known story of the 19th-century British remittance men and British influence on western North America.
5
Voices of British Columbia: Stories from Our Frontier
As a result, they came to be known as remittance men. In most cases, these men
were paid by their families to stay away because they tended to cause problems
or embarrass the family. As British tradition held that first-born sons were entitled
...
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Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917
1880), 22, 247. Thanks to Sandra V. MacMahan for this citation. 40. McFarlane, "
British Remittance Men as Ranchers," 56-58. 41. R. M. Middleton, ed. and annot.,
The Journal of Lady Aberdeen: The Okanagan Valley in the Nineties (Victoria, ...
Ferenc Morton Szasz, 2000
7
William Wye Smith: Recollections of a Nineteenth Century ...
By that time the North American west was a favoured destination for British “
remittance men” and many did end up, like Smith's Stewart, as victims of
alcoholism. Nevertheless, recent scholarship has argued that others who were
supported by ...
William Wye Smith, Scott Alan McLean, Michael Easton Vance, 2008
8
Day of the Cyclone: Disaster Strikes! 7
“Jest a bunch of no-good Remittance Men.” “Remittance Men?” asked Ella
curiously. “Aye. Rich fellas from England. Come here for a piece of all this, but
their folks back home send 'em money every month so they dinnae hafta work. D'
ye ken ...
9
Noel Coward: A Biography
They were remittance men . . . [who] sipped a rum punch before lunch, and then
slept after lunch . . . crawled out for another rum punch before dinner, and . . .
crawled back to bed. Jamaica was a real outpost of Empire. There was a lot of
colour ...
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Mountain Masculinity: The Life and Writing of Nello "Tex" ...
See, for example, Mark Zuehlke, Scoundrels, Dreamers til Second Sons: British
Remittance Men in the Canadian West (Vancouver/Toronto: Whitecap Books,
1994), e.g., p. 60: "The popular Canadian folklore that grew up around the
presence ...
Tex Wood, Julie Rak, Andrew Colin Gow, 2008
NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «REMITTANCE MEN»
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The aristocrat who became a cowboy
Remittance Men - Aristocrats to Cowboys is an historical dramatization written by Kiss FM radio announcer and theatre guy Jason Armstrong. The third youngest ... «Vernon Morning Star, Jun 15»
