John Douglas Belshaw
Biographic Data
| ID | 1013383 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Douglas Belshaw |
| GIVEN NAMES | John Douglas |
| FAMILY NAME | Belshaw |
| SIGNATURE | BELSHAW J D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Thompson Rivers University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Spotlight on Vancouver
Vancouver’s Veloligarchy
Histories of the late 19th-century “bicycle craze” tend to focus on events, riders, and the building of better roads for cyclists. Everywhere, elites—who almost exclusively could afford both the cost of a bicycle and the time for riding—were important in these developments. Histories of the haute bourgeoisie, by comparison, tend to understand their nodes of power as exclusive business clubs or lodges and mostly regard sports and recreation as lei…
Wheeling through Toronto
Becoming British Columbia
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
Colonization and Community
Journal Article Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class Get access Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class. By Belshaw John Douglas. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Washington S…
Colonization and Community
Colonization and Community
In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast pr…
The West We Have Lost
Using British Columbia as an example, this paper argues that population is a central issue in the history of the North American West. The author contends that though this topic has eluded explicit analysis, it has embedded itself in the language of historical discourse, and thus, when fully examined, indicates broader concerns for the regions history as a whole
Park Prisoners
Journal Article Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, 1915–1946 Get access Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, 1915–1946. By Waiser Bill. (Saskatoon, Canada: Fifth House Publishers, 1995. x + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $27.95.) John Douglas Belshaw John Douglas Belshaw University College of the Cariboo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
Making Steel
Making Steel: Technology, History, Culture of Work. Co-Produced by the Steel Project, Beaton Institute, University College of Cape Breton and the National Film Board of Canada, 1992, Colour, 56:30 on video.. An article from journal Scientia Canadensis (Volume 18, Number 2 (47), 1994, pp. 103-212), on Érudit
The British Collier in British Columbia
It is a widely held axiom of British Columbia's labour history that the province's radical tradition originated among immigrant British workers who formed the social bedrock of Vancouver Island's coaltowns in the 19th century. This paper challenges the stereotype of the British BC worker in the last century by balancing the post-immigration experience against the pre-emigration vocabulary of work, class, race, and politics. I conclude that insofa…
The Irish in America
Working for the Railroad
Gentlemen Emigrants
Working for the Railroad
Gentlemen Emigrants
The Irish in America
Making Steel
Making Steel: Technology, History, Culture of Work. Co-Produced by the Steel Project, Beaton Institute, University College of Cape Breton and the National Film Board of Canada, 1992, Colour, 56:30 on video.. An article from journal Scientia Canadensis (Volume 18, Number 2 (47), 1994, pp. 103-212), on Érudit
The British Collier in British Columbia
It is a widely held axiom of British Columbia's labour history that the province's radical tradition originated among immigrant British workers who formed the social bedrock of Vancouver Island's coaltowns in the 19th century. This paper challenges the stereotype of the British BC worker in the last century by balancing the post-immigration experience against the pre-emigration vocabulary of work, class, race, and politics. I conclude that insofa…
Park Prisoners
Journal Article Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, 1915–1946 Get access Park Prisoners: The Untold Story of Western Canada's National Parks, 1915–1946. By Waiser Bill. (Saskatoon, Canada: Fifth House Publishers, 1995. x + 294 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $27.95.) John Douglas Belshaw John Douglas Belshaw University College of the Cariboo Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google S…
The West We Have Lost
Using British Columbia as an example, this paper argues that population is a central issue in the history of the North American West. The author contends that though this topic has eluded explicit analysis, it has embedded itself in the language of historical discourse, and thus, when fully examined, indicates broader concerns for the regions history as a whole
Colonization and Community
In Colonization and Community John Belshaw takes a new look at British Columbia's first working class, the men, women, and children beneath and beyond the pit-head. Beginning with an exploration of emigrant expectations and ambitions, he investigates working conditions, household wages, racism, industrial organization, gender, schooling, leisure, community building, and the fluid identity of the British mining colony, the archetypal west coast pr…
Colonization and Community
Journal Article Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class Get access Colonization and Community: The Vancouver Island Coalfield and the Making of the British Columbia Working Class. By Belshaw John Douglas. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2002. xxx + 320 pp. Illustrations, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $75.00, cloth.) Laurie Mercier Laurie Mercier Washington S…
Colonization and Community
Becoming British Columbia
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
Spotlight on Vancouver
Vancouver’s Veloligarchy
Histories of the late 19th-century “bicycle craze” tend to focus on events, riders, and the building of better roads for cyclists. Everywhere, elites—who almost exclusively could afford both the cost of a bicycle and the time for riding—were important in these developments. Histories of the haute bourgeoisie, by comparison, tend to understand their nodes of power as exclusive business clubs or lodges and mostly regard sports and recreation as lei…
Wheeling through Toronto
Canadian Identity and History (10 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Colonization (3 works) · Historical Studies and Socio-cultural Analysis (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works)