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Author Belshaw, John Douglas

Title Becoming British Columbia : a population history / John Douglas Belshaw
Published Vancouver : UBC Press, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 273 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents 1. Cradle to grave : an introduction -- 2. Weddings, funerals, anything : the British Columbian demographic narrative -- 3. The west we have lost : First Nations depopulation -- 4. Girl meets boys : sex ratios and nuptiality -- 5. Ahead by a century : fertility -- 6. Strangers in paradise : immigration and the experience of diversity -- 7. mourning after : mortality -- 8 The British Columbia clearances : some conclusions -- App. A. Leading settlements/towns/cities, BC, 1871-1951 -- App. B. Total population, BC, 1867-2006 -- App. C. Age and sex distributions, BC, 1891-2001 -- App. D. Infant mortality rates, BC, 1922-2002
Summary "Becoming British Columbia is the first comprehensive, demographic history of this province. Investigating critical moments in the demographic record and linking demographic patterns to larger social and political questions, it shows how biology, politics, and history conspire with sex, death, and migration to create a particular kind of society. John Belshaw overturns the widespread tendency to associate population growth with progress by examining how the province's Aboriginal population of as much as half a million was reduced by disease to fewer than 30,000 people in less than a century. He reveals that the province has a long tradition of thinking and acting vigorously in ways meant to control and shape biological communities of humans, and suggests that imperialism, race, class, and gender have historically situated population issues at the centre of public consciousness in British Columbia."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-262) and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Population -- History
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Demography.
Indians of North America -- Population
Population
Bevölkerung
SUBJECT British Columbia -- Population -- History
British Columbia -- History
British Columbia -- Population -- Statistics
Subject British Columbia
British Columbia
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Statistics
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2009417628
ISBN 9780774815475
0774815477
0774815469
9780774815468
0774815450
9780774815451
9786612740442
6612740442