Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town Into a Victorian CommunityDeparting from traditional historiography focused on the economic role of resource development, Canada's Victorian Oil Town incorporates an understanding of the connections between science and technology, nation and imperialism, and cultural nuances of community-building. Burr looks at the cultural importance of place and how collective identity was nurtured in the community. She also illustrates how the image of Petrolia as Canada's Victorian Oil Town has been used since the 1970s to develop a thriving tourist industry in the region. Interdisciplinary in scope, Canada's Victorian Oil Town draws from the history of imperialism, science, resource development, local history, gender studies, and cultural geography. |
Contents
| 3 | |
Colonial Land Policy Land Speculators and Settlement in Enniskillen Township 1830s60s | 16 |
Science Colonization and the Oil Boom in MidNineteenthCentury Enniskillen Township | 54 |
3 The Petrolia Discovery and the Making of an Oil Resource Community | 85 |
Public Space Voluntary Associations and the Creation of a Culture of Refined Sociability | 123 |
Enniskillen Townships Foreign Drillers Imperialism and Colonial Discourse | 158 |
History Public Memory and Community | 189 |
Conclusion | 237 |
Notes | 245 |
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