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Bunkhouse and home: Company, community, and crisis in Britannia Beach, British Columbia
(University of Victoria, 2005)Canada's company towns have traditionally been seen as temporary settlements: remote, unstable places shaped by authoritarian employers. Despite these stereotypes, daily life in single industry communities was quite ... -
[Abstract] "That touch of paternalism": Cultivating community in the company town of Britannia Beach, 1920-1958.
(University of British Columbia, 2006)Abstract of an article written by Katharine Rollwagen, "'That touch of paternalism': Cultivating community in the company town of Britannia Beach, 1920-1958" which appeared in the journal BC Studies: The British Columbian ... -
"The market that just grew up": How Eaton's fashioned the teenaged consumer in mid-twentieth-century Canada
(University of Ottawa, 2012)This thesis focuses on the emergence of the teenaged consumer as a market segment in Canada during the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. It challenges the notion that teenagers were of little interest to retailers until economics ... -
[Post-print] When ghosts hovered: Community and crisis in the company town of Britannia Beach, British Columbia, Canada, 1957-1965
(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012)Britannia Beach is not a ghost town today, but between 1957 and 1965 residents and employees of the former company-owned copper mining town, located 48 km north of Vancouver, British Columbia, had good reasons to believe ... -
[Abstract] Eaton's goes to school: Youth councils and the commodification of the teenaged consumer at Canada's largest department store, 1940-1960.
(Les Publications Histoire sociale/Social History, Inc., 2014-11)Abstract of an article written by Katharine Rollwagen, "Eaton's goes to school: Youth councils and the commodification of the teenaged consumer at Canada's largest department store, 1940-1960" which appeared in the journal ... -
Classrooms for consumer society: Practical education and secondary school reform in Post-Second World War Canada
(Canadian History of Education Association, 2016)Young people’s intersecting roles as students, workers, and shoppers have received little attention from historians, who have focused on young people as either students or workers. This paper begins to examine these roles ...
