Cover -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Part One Paradise Lost: Natives -- 1 Historical Sketches -- 2 The Framework of the Study -- 3 Stratification -- 4 The Great Escape -- Part Two Paradise Found: Newcomers -- 5 Modern Pioneers -- 6 The Commuting Life -- 7 Growing Pains -- Part Three Perfect Strangers: Ethnic Minorities -- 8 British Subjects and Aliens -- 9 African and Asian Canadians -- 10 Jews and French Canadians -- 11 Patterns of Prejudice -- 12 Wider Issues -- Appendix A: Methodology -- Appendix B: Interview Schedule for Natives -- NOTES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- V -- W
Summary
Paradise €concentrates on the transformed class system of one community in rural Ontario. In a comparison of the decade following the First World War and the 1980s, Stanley R. Barrett analyses the changing face and structure of a town as it has had to adapt to modern social and economic realities
