Title
More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America
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Description
More of a Man presents the only known diaries of a skilled craft-worker in Victorian Canada: Andrew McIlwraith, a Scottish journeyman who migrated to North America during a tumultuous period marked by economic depression and early industrial change. McIlwraith’s journals illuminate his quest to succeed financially and emotionally amidst challenging circumstances. The diaries trace his transformations, from an immigrant newcomer to a respected townsman, a wage worker to an entrepreneur, and a bachelor to a married man. Carefully edited and fully annotated by historians Andrew C. Holman and Robert B. Kristofferson, More of a Man features an introduction providing historical context for McIlwraith’s life and an epilogue detailing what happened to him after the diaries end.
ISBN
9780802097019
Publication Date
2013
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
City
Toronto
Recommended Citation
Holman, A.C., & Kristofferson, R.B. (Eds.). (2013). More of a Man: Diaries of a Scottish Craftsman in Mid-Nineteenth-Century North America. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.