Chapter 9 - Elite Excess and Riff-Raff Reality

If many pioneers came to early British Columbia in flight from the stifling conventions and social stratification of Europe, others came intent on establishing the same society in the colonies—but with themselves on top. So, less than a decade after the union of Vancouver Island with the mainland, the colony had developed its own Upstairs-Downstairs class structure. At one end of the spectrum was a genteel life of high teas, debutantes, calling cards and fancy balls for gowned ladies and...

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