This book is an entomology of Thunder Bay, Ontario and is written by Thomas Dunk. This presentation picked out various themes from the book.

1. It’s a Working Man’s Town Male Working-Class Culture Thomas W. Dunk

3. People like us

21. Race, Ethnicity, and Regionalism in Working-Class Culture

24. English people worked for the railroad.

25. Finns and French Canadians composed a large portion of the labour force in the forestry industry.

26. Construction work was an Italian activity.

27. Eastern Europeans worked for freight sheds and performed other kinds of heavy manual work.

28. Scottish people worked for the elevators.

39. Social Class in First Nation Groups

41. The Hierarchy of Indians: Who is more Indian? Are you Indian enough? The Hierarchy of Aboriginal people . http://rightojibwe.blogspot.com/2011/09/are-you-indian-enough-hierarchy-of.html

42. REGIONALISM “ What makes Thunder Bay different? How is it different from other cities?” “ It’s a working man’s town. Everybody carries a lunch bucket here. That’s what it’s like in northwestern Ontario” (2003:45)

43. STILL ???

44. POLITICS OF THE HINTERLAND Politics of Extraction Politics of Frustration Politics of Parochialism

45. “ In a reactive mode, local knowledge is celebrated to the point that critical self-reflection is ruled out” (2003:54)

46. The ‘Local’ Whites

47. “ Multiculturalism does not recognize the structural basis of social inequality in class relations. The state’s focus on ethnicity means that those who are no longer ‘ethnics’ are assumed to be part of the middle class…” (2003:131)

48. “ They celebrate their own cultural values and vigorously reject those they feel are promoted by the power bloc. But they do so by emphasizing their own difference and superiority over the most visible ethnic group in the region” (2003:131)

49. “ The ‘Indian’ is established as a symbol through which the Boys establish their own moral worth and their difference from the perceived power bloc” (2003:102)

50. Where do the Boys belong?

51. Common sense