TY  - BOOK
AU  - Belshaw,John
TI  - Becoming British Columbia: A Population History
SN  - 9780774815475
AV  - HB3530.B7 -- B45 2009eb 
U1  - 304.6 
PY  - 2009///
CY  - Vancouver
PB  - University of British Columbia Press
KW  - Indians of North America -- British Columbia -- Population -- History
KW  - British Columbia -- Population -- History
KW  - British Columbia -- History
KW  - British Columbia -- Population -- Statistics
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- 1 Cradle to Grave: An Introduction -- 2 Weddings, Funerals, Anything: The British Columbian Demographic Narrative -- 3 The West We Have Lost: First Nations Depopulation -- 4 Girl Meets Boys: Sex Ratios and Nuptiality -- 5 Ahead by a Century: Fertility -- 6 Strangers in Paradise: Immigration and the Experience of Diversity -- 7 The Mourning After: Mortality -- 8 The British Columbia Clearances: Some Conclusions -- Appendices -- A: Leading Settlements/Towns/Cities, BC, 1871-1951 -- B: Total Population, BC, 1867-2006 -- C: Age and Sex Distributions, BC, 1891-2001 -- D: Infant Mortality Rates, BC, 1922-2002 -- Notes -- Suggested Reading -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
N2  - Becoming British Columbia investigates critical moments in the demographic record of British Columbia, including catastrophic epidemics, immigrant rushes, forced migrations, the fertility transition, and the baby boom, in an accessible yet scholarly and provocative way
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