BOOKS by Mary McDougall Maude

Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada more books like this

by Wendy Cameron, Mary McDougall Maude

The 1830s were years of social and political change in Britain. Rural unrest in 1830-31 spurred politicians and landlords to re-examine the roles government and individuals should play in fighting poverty. "Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada" examines how new attitudes and policies towards the English poor in this decade affected the British ...

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English Immigrant Voices more books like this

by Wendy Cameron (Editor), Sheila Haines (Editor), Mary McDougall Maude (Editor)

Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experience from a working-class perspective. Collected ...

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