dc.contributor.author	Jaenen, Cornelius J.	eng
dc.date.accessioned	2011-07-06T20:05:45Z
dc.date.available	2011-07-06T20:05:45Z
dc.date.issued	2011	eng
dc.description	Series: The West series; 4	eng
dc.description.abstract	In this comprehensive study of Belgian settlement in western Canada, Cornelius Jaenen shows that Belgian immigration was unique in its character and brought with it significant benefits out of proportion to its comparatively small numbers. Canadas first Immigration Act (1869) included Belgium among the "preferred countries" from which immigrants should be sought, but unlike many other European countries, Belgium did not encourage its nationals to emigrate to relieve economic, demographic, and social crises, and Belgian officials took a strong interest in their emigrants, monitoring the conditions of settlement and, where fraud was discovered, intervening diplomatically and paying for repatriation. The result was a resourceful body of settlers adaptable to both anglophone and francophone communities and adept at promotion and raising of capital. The first wave of immigration, beginning in the 1880s, consisted mainly of farmers to southern Manitoba and miners to Vancouver Island. A second wave after 1896, facilitated by a direct steamship link to Antwerp, brought more miners, as well as orchard planters to the Okanagan, sugar beet farmers to Alberta, and dairymen to Manitoba. World War I was followed by a further wave of agriculturally oriented settlement, and World War II by a mainly urban and skill-oriented cohort. In all cases, Belgians differed from the larger immigrant groups in that they were not recruited by important immigration societies and did not settle in ethnic blocs. There is probably no one better equipped than Cornelius Jaenen to write the history of the Belgians in western Canada. An eminent historian and the son of Flemish and Walloon Belgian immigrants himself, Professor Jaenen has gleaned, from Belgian and Canadian archival sources and from local, community, and family histories, a story rich in detail and context that will be invaluable to Canadians of Belgian origin as well as scholars and students of western Canadian ethnic and immigration studies.	en_US
dc.description.refereed	Yes	eng
dc.identifier.citation	Jaenen, Cornelius J., "Promoters, planters, and pioneers: the course and context of Belgian settlement in Western Canada". Series: The West series 4, University of Calgary Press, Calgary, Alberta, 2011.	eng
dc.identifier.doi	http://dx.doi.org/10.11575/PRISM/34621
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-55238-495-4	eng
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1880/48650	eng
dc.language.iso	eng	eng
dc.publisher	University of Calgary Press	eng
dc.publisher.url	http://press.ucalgary.ca/	eng
dc.rights	Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives 3.0 Unported	*
dc.rights.uri	http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/	*
dc.subject	Belgians—Canada, Western—History	eng
dc.subject	Belgian Canadians—Canada, Western—History	eng
dc.subject	Immigrants—Canada, Western—History	eng
dc.subject	Canada, Western—Emigration and immigration	eng
dc.subject	Belgium—Emigration and immigration	eng
dc.title	Promoters, planters, and pioneers: the course and context of Belgian settlement in Western Canada	eng
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