| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class. By John Douglas Belshaw. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth.)

This book pursues the process of cultural change: to what extent did British migrants to the Vancouver Island coalfields remain British, and when did they become working-class British Columbians? John Douglas Belshaw argues that these nineteenth-century immigrants were less influenced by their past—including their reputed labor militancy—as they were from the challenging frontier conditions. Worker dissatisfaction rose from such hardships as a higher death rate for mine employees than in Britain or the United States, unstable markets, and the geological challenges of the island coal seams.

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