Whoever Gives us Bread is a lively people's history from the 1860s to the 1960s, as told by an award-winning historian.In the early 1860s, Italians began trickling into British Columbia via San Francisco. Fleeing grinding poverty back home, they came north to the isolated valleys and cities of the province to pan for gold, raise cattle, dig coal, fell timber, build railroads, smelt copper and refine lead, or to start small businesses. BC welcomed them grudgingly.Recounting the stories of individual Italian immigrants, celebrated author Lynne Bowen has crafted a loosely chronological narrative
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Language note
English
Contents
I am always being faithful
Of tombstones and pretensions
A class not easily advised or intimidated
Birds of passage
Hordes of foreigners
Birds and fishes, sharks and falcons
Our foreign brother
La grande miseria
Less desirable classes
Gold for the fatherland
Enemy aliens
Impossible to dream.
ISBN
9781553656081
1553656083
OCLC
712851543
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