Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons British remittance men in the Canadian west

""Remittance men" was a term used for young British men who settled in Canada and who were mostly "of aristocratic or upper-middle-class background, cultured, and supported by regular allowances sent to them by family back in Britain. It was the allowance that earned them the nickname of remittance men."--Pref."@en
"Between 1880 and 1914, thousands of British remittance men came to the Canadian West, urged overseas by a rapidly changing British society. In a land of cowboys and loggers, their attempts to recreate the aura of landed gentry were sometimes misunderstood - and often ridiculed. Many Canadians thought steeplechase tracks, easels, tennis and "taking ease" were futile pursuits for a group of otherwise pleasant and well-educated men. What some saw as a chase after failed dreams, a lack of family ties, and a refusal to ever settle down to serious work, remittance men saw as the very things that made."@en

"Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons British remittance men in the Canadian west"
"Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons British remittance men in the Canadian west"@en
"Scoundrels, Dreamers and Second Sons British Remittance Men in the Canadian West"@en
"Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons : British remittance men in the Canadian west"
"Scoundrels, dreamers & second sons : British remittance men in the Canadian west"@en