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Roaring Days : Rossland's Mines and the History of British Columbia.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Press, 1995Copyright date: ©1995Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780774854467
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Roaring DaysDDC classification:
  • 971.1/62
LOC classification:
  • F1089.5.R67 -- M68 1995eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Context of Discovery -- 2 ''The Hope of This Country': Smelters, Railways, and the Growth of Rossland, 1895-8 -- 3 ''The Comstock and the Rand Put Together': British Investment in Rossland -- 4 Miners and Early Industrial Relations in the Kootenays, 1895-1900 -- 5 ''This Militant Band of Labor's Bravest Champions': Rossland Miners, 1899-1903 -- 6 Social Relations in Fin de Siècle Rossland -- 7 The Emergence and Growth of Cominco, 1901-23 -- 8 The End of the Roaring Days -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.
Summary: This lively history of mining in Rossland, British Columbia brings to life the unique individuals who built a bustling town out of the wilderness.
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Intro -- Contents -- Illustrations, Figures, and Maps -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The Context of Discovery -- 2 ''The Hope of This Country': Smelters, Railways, and the Growth of Rossland, 1895-8 -- 3 ''The Comstock and the Rand Put Together': British Investment in Rossland -- 4 Miners and Early Industrial Relations in the Kootenays, 1895-1900 -- 5 ''This Militant Band of Labor's Bravest Champions': Rossland Miners, 1899-1903 -- 6 Social Relations in Fin de Siècle Rossland -- 7 The Emergence and Growth of Cominco, 1901-23 -- 8 The End of the Roaring Days -- Appendixes -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

This lively history of mining in Rossland, British Columbia brings to life the unique individuals who built a bustling town out of the wilderness.

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