Changing Places: History, Community, and Identity in Northeastern Ontario

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2006 - History - 519 pages
Changing Places examines the process by which a relatively coherent community emerged in the sub-region of Northern Ontario bounded by Timmins, Iroquois Falls, and Matheson. Using archival, oral, and newspaper sources, Kerry Abel offers the only comprehensive history of the area. She rejects traditional sociological and anthropological models about community and identity in favour of a more nuanced interpretation that takes historical process into account.
 

Contents

The Place
3
The First Communities
14
The BestLaid Plans
39
Building the Towns
67
Ethnicity and Immigration
103
Work
136
Play
180
Society
207
Centrifugal Forces
287
Centripetal Forces
319
Creating a Community
361
Conclusion
399
Notes
417
Bibliography
475
Index
509
Copyright

Politics
249

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About the author (2006)

Kerry M. Abel is an independent scholar and the author of Drum Songs: Glimpses of Dene History.

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