Antiracist History & Theory

Hardy Backwoodsmen, Wholesome Women, Steady Families: Immigration and the Construction of White Society in Colonial British Columbia

Simon I.

Factsheet

Description

The factsheet breaks down the colonial history of British Columbia by focusing on colonial promoters and the archetypes they sought to attract to settle. The factsheet looks at the populations that made up the colonies of pre-federation British Columbia and the failures of the colonial promoters schemes in creating a homogenously white colony.

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Source Authors

Adele Perry

Keywords

"concepts of whiteness", "Croaker", "harbingers of empire", "Hardy Backwoodsman", "hybrid figures", "imperial morality", "Wholesome Woman", African-Americans, bride ships, British colonialism, Chinese Settlers, colonial archetypes, colonial authority, colonial economics, colonial power relations, colonial promoters, colonial schemes, Dispossession, diversity, Empire, European Jews, female settlers, gender, gendered bodies, gendered roles, Hiada, Hieltsuk, Hudson's Bay Company, hybridity, immorality, inclusion and exclusion, Indigenous communities, Indigenous dispossession, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous women, interracial marriage, interracial relationships, Kanaka (Hawaiian), Kwakwaka'wakw, Land Dispossession, Latinos, lineage, male settlers, middle-class, moral regulation, Nisga'a, Nuxalk, settler population, Settler-Indigenous Relations, social regulation, the Anglo Saxon identity, Tlingit, Tsimshian, white farmers, white settler colony, white women, working-class, working-class women