Author: ZUEHLKE, MARK
Title: Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons British Remittance Men in the Canadian West
Description: Vancouver BC: Whitecap Books Ltd, 1994. First Edition. Paperback. ISBN: 1551101971. Only slight wear to card covers ; A bright, solid book ; Trade PB; B&W Illustrations; 0.71 x 8.35 x 5.98 Inches; 211 pages; Between 1880 and 1914, thousands of British remittance men came to the Canadian West, urged overseas by a rapidly changing British society. In a land of cowboys and loggers, their attempts to recreate the aura of landed gentry were sometimes misunderstood - and often ridiculed. Many Canadians thought steeplechase tracks, easels, tennis and "taking ease" were futile pursuits for a group of otherwise pleasant and well-educated men. What some saw as a chase after failed dreams, a lack of family ties, and a refusal to ever settle down to serious work, remittance men saw as the very things that made their lives worth living. With a hint of nostalgia for the pre-war era that harboured these colourful outcasts of a diminishing empire, Mark Zuehlke fondly recounts the often humourous and sometimes dismal efforts of "good breeding" in Canada's West.. Very Good+ .

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