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Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community
 
 
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Canada's Victorian Oil Town: The Transformation of Petrolia from Resource Town into a Victorian Community (Hardcover)

by Christina A. Burr (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 295 pages
  • Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press (25 Nov 2006)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0773531122
  • ISBN-13: 978-0773531123
  • Product Dimensions: 22.8 x 15.6 x 2.4 cm
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"What an exciting story! I thoroughly enjoyed the exegesis of the relationship between natural science, ideas of social progress, and industrial capital - a story that allowed allusions to 'witchers,' 'dousers,' and 'oil-smellers.' It's a good read." Brian Osborne, Queen's University "Burr has explored Petrolia's rich history and hitherto unexplored cultural and technological dimensions and taken into account many of the complexities, struggles, and tensions that made it the town it is today." Kerry Badgley, National Archives, Ottawa

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In the early 1850s, the oil industry had a major impact on the resource town of Petrolia, Ontario. Christina Burr explores the ways in which the industry provided a common cultural identification that helped Petrolia change from a rough shanty-town of disreputable land speculators and "wildcatters" into an orderly, "civilized" Victorian community. Departing 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.
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