Riots in New Brunswick : : Orange Nativism and Social Violence in the 1840s / / Scott W. See.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
• VerfasserIn: See, Scott W.,
• MitwirkendeR: Knox, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]; ©1993
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Heritage
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (278 p.)

During the mid to late 1840s, dramatic riots shook the communities of Woodstock, Fredericton, and Saint John. Irish-Catholic immigrants fought Protestant Orangemen, with fists, club, and firearms. The violence resulted in death and destruction unprecedented in the British North American colonies. This book is the first serious historical treatment of the bloody riots and the tangled events that led to them. Scott See shows mid-century New Brunswick roughly awakened from the slumbering provincialism of its post-Loyalist phase by the stirrings of capitalism and by the tidal wave of Irish immigration that followed the potato famine. His main focus is the Loyal Orange Order, the anti-Catholic organization that clashed with the immigrants, many of them impoverished exiles. See presents an extraordinary profile of the Orange Order and concludes provocatively that it was a nativist organization similar to the xenophobic groups active at the time in the United States. Unlike other recent works on the Order, his book emphasizes the importance of the organization's specifically North American concerns, and questions the significance of its connections to Old World sectarianism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part One: The Context -- Introduction -- 1. New Brunswick in mid-century -- 2. Communities in transition: Saint John, Fredericton, and Woodstock -- Part Two: The Protagonists -- 3. The Irish-Catholics: Immigration and response -- 4. The Orange Order: Institutionalized nativism -- Part Three: The Riots -- 5. The hinterland: The Woodstock riot of 1847 -- 6. The capital: Confrontations in Fredericton -- 7. The ports: Orange-Green disturbances in Saint John and Portland -- 8. Social violence peaks: The York Point riot of 1849 -- Part Four: The Perspective -- 9. Aftermath: The pacific fifties -- 10. A tumultuous decade -- Appendix A: 'The Battle Of York Point, 1849, St. John N.B.' -- Appendix B: New Brunswick Immigration And Primary Orange Lodges, 1831-55 -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index