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Saving the Union’s Jack: The Montreal Sailors’ Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98
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Saving the Union’s Jack: The Montreal Sailors’ Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98
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Between its founding in 1862 and the purchase of a permanent establishment in 1898, the Montreal Sailor’ Institute employed the concept of “home” as a strategy through which its Anglo-Protestant supporters in the city sought to direct social relations in the face of increasing urban and industrial pressures. Sailors in port were seen as a special class of “homeless”, but also seen as integral to the British imperial economy. Separated from family, religion and nation, the author argues that Montreal’s social reformers sought both to control the sailor’s time in port and celebrate his contribution to the economy.
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Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal
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Vancouver, BC
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UBC Press
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2005
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49-76
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en
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Ingram, Darcy. “Saving the Union’s Jack: The Montreal Sailors’ Institute and the Homeless Sailor, 1862-98.” In Negotiating Identities in 19th- and 20th-Century Montreal, edited by Bettina Bradbury and Tamara Myers, 49–76. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2005.
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