Scoundrels, Dreamers & Second Sons: British Remittance Men in the Canadian West

by Mark Zuehlke

Book Overview

Beginning in 1880, thousands of young, upper-class British men with few prospects were sent to the Canadian West to distance them from British society. Still supported by their families, thus earning them the title remittance men, these men set out to continue their lives of leisure in this new land.

With education, respectable breeding and the belief from birth that they were superior beings, the remittance men descended upon Western...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1550177451
• ISBN13: 9781550177459
• Release Date: May 2016
• Publisher: Harbour Publishing
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 8.9"