| Description |
1 online resource (xi, 295 pages : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction : colonization, culture, and the making of Canada's Victorian oil town -- 1. "Oil mania" : colonial land policy, land speculators, and settlement in Enniskillen Township, 1830s-60s -- 2. "Oil smellers" and "professors" : science, colonization, and the oil boom in mid-nineteenth-century Enniskillen Township -- 3. The petrolia discovery and the making of an oil resource community -- 4. A respectable Victorian town : public space, voluntary associations, and the creation of a culture of refined sociability -- 5. "Some adventures of the boys" : Enniskillen Township's "foreign drillers," imperialism, and colonial discourse -- 6. "Canada's Victorian oil town" : history, public memory, and community |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-287) and index |
| Notes |
English |
| Subject |
Group identity -- Ontario -- Petrolia -- History
|
|
Community life -- Ontario -- Petrolia -- History
|
|
Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects -- Ontario -- Petrolia -- History
|
|
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
|
|
Community life
|
|
Group identity
|
|
Petroleum industry and trade -- Social aspects
|
| SUBJECT |
Petrolia (Ont.) -- History
|
| Subject |
Ontario -- Petrolia
|
| Genre/Form |
History
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9780773575905 |
|
0773575901 |
|
1282866370 |
|
9781282866379 |
|
9786612866371 |
|
6612866373 |
|
