Between the lodge and the meeting-house: Mapping Irish Protestant identities and social worlds in late Victorian Toronto |
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Authors: | William Jenkins |
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Institution: | Department of Geography , University of British Columbia , 1984 West Mall, Vancouver, BC, V6T 1Z2, Canada |
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Abstract: | The urban lives of Irish Protestant immigrants and their descendants are a neglected feature in geographies of the Irish diaspora. Prominent settlers from the early nineteenth century, they played a key role in the shaping of a host culture in Anglophone Canada. The social and spatial processes that moulded Irish Protestants into a wider loyal British identity are examined at a number of scales in Toronto, 'the Belfast of North America'. After initially exploring the rhetoric and practices of city-wide institutions that served many Irish Protestants, the autobiographical reflections of John McAree are used as a case study on the micro-geographies of everyday lives experienced within local space as well as an empirical test for Bourdieu's ideas of practice and 'habitus'. |
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Keywords: | Irish Protestantism Identity Space Theory Toronto |
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