found: Work cat.: Zuehlke, M. Scoundrels, dreamers, & sec. sons : British remittance men in the Canadian west, 1994:p. v (Most were educated, of aristocratic or upper-middle-class background, and supported by regular allowances sent by family back in Britain. It was the allowances that earned them the nickname of remittance men. These men went to several parts of the world, incl., Australia, South Africa and the Canadian west)
found: Web. 3(a person living on a remittance; esp. one living away from the British Isles but subsisting chiefly on remittances from home)
found: Dunae, P.A. Gentlemen emigrants : from the British public schools to the Canadian frontier, 1981.
found: Canadian encycl. 2(Remittance Man)
found: Encycl. Canadiana(Remittance Man)
found: Ox. companion Australian lit.(Remittance Man was usually the black sheep of the family, sent out to the colonies from England so that he would no longer be an embarrassment at home. He was usually sustained by regular remittances of money from the family in England)
found: 92-54762: Olson, L. Marmalade and whiskey : British remittance men in the West, c1993(Discusses remittance men in the American West)
