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British emigration to British North America : the first hundred years /

This book is an attempt to give students and general readers something of the story of the outpouring of British subjects who peopled British North America in the years before Confederation.

Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Cowan, Helen I. (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: [Toronto] : University of Toronto Press, [1961]
Édition:Revised and enlarged edition.
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Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Foreword
  • Introduction
  • Settlement for Trade and Defence, 1765-1815
  • Unemployment, Overpopulation, Emigration
  • The Rising Tide: To the Military Settlements, 1815-1830
  • The Rising Tide: To the Irish Settlements, 1823-1845
  • New Needs and New Theories
  • Colonization Leaders and Colonization Companies
  • The Emigrant Ship and the Emigrant Trade, 1815-1860
  • The Great Emigrations, 1830-1860
  • Help for the Needy Emigrant
  • The Triumph of Laissez-Faire.