About this title: 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 from published, archival, and private sources, these letters place the Petworth immigrants in the context of their times and challenge the image of English immigrants to 1830s Upper Canada as officers and gentlewomen. Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and ...
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Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Mcgill-Queens University Press, Montreal.
Date Published: 2000
ISBN-13:9780773520356ISBN:077352035X
Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A fine copy in a fine jacket. SIGNED by two of the three editors, Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude at the end of a presentation inscription by Rev.....Dated December/2, 2000. read more
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