English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s
Cameron, W; Haines, S.; McDougall, M.M. (Volume I) : Cameron, W.; McDougall, M.M. (Volume II) authors
Language: English
Published by McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Volume: English Immigrant Voices: 471 pp; Volume: Assisting Emigration to Upper Canada: 354 pp. Includes both dust jackets - no wear. Incudes box to fit both volumes - no wear. Photos provided. Covers are grey cloth with silver lettering for both volumes - no wear (photos). No notations, underlining or highlighting. Former Dominicain library owner with stamps on pages and page ends (photo). Prompt shipping includes tracking - will require additional postage for the two volumes are heavy, prices vary with destination.
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- Title
- English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s
- Author
- Cameron, W; Haines, S.; McDougall, M.M. (Volume I) : Cameron, W.; McDougall, M.M. (Volume II) authors
- Publisher
- McGill-Queen's University Press
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Fine
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 077352035X
- ISBN 13
- 9780773520356
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Item weight
- 1.066 kilograms
- Dimensions
- 1.5 inches width by 7.1 inches height by 9.1 inches depth
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 Mary McDougall Maude have carefully annotated the letters to sketch the stories of individual writers, link letters by the same author or members of the same family, and explore the connections between writers. What eventually happened to some of the writers is also revealed in this engaging collection.
English Immigrant Voices provides a valuable insight into the rural poor and their experiences in emigrating to a new land.
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About the Author
visiting scholar, Northrop Frye Centre, Victoria University at the University of Toronto, Canada
partner in Kinship, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Sussex, England
Maude is a partner in Wordforce and Shipton and is a coordinator of the Publishing Program at Ryerson Polytechnic University.
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