Author: John HowisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sketches of upper Canada, domestic, local and characteristic
Author: John HowisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
Sketches of Upper Canada ; Domestic, Local, and Characteristic
Author: John HowisonSketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local, and Characteristic
Author: John HowisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 366
Book Description
Sketches of Upper Canada, Domestic, Local and Characteristic
Author: John HowisonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : New York (State)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Universal Traveller
Author: John GaltSKETCHES OF UPPER CANADA
Author: JOHN. HOWISONPublisher:
ISBN: 9781033491119
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855
Author: Lucille H. CampeyPublisher: Dundurn
ISBN: 1770704442
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Glengarry, Upper Canada’s first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of Scotland and gave the province its many Scottish settlements. Pride in their culture gave Scots a strong sense of identity and self-worth. These factors contributed to their success and left Upper Canada with firmly rooted Scottish traditions. Individual settlements have been well observed, but the overall picture has never been pieced together. Why did Upper Canada have such appeal to Scots? What was their impact on the province? Why did they choose their different settlement locations? Drawing on new and wide-ranging sources author Lucille H. Campey charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout Upper Canada. This book contains much descriptive information, including all known passenger lists. It gives details of the 550 ships, which made over 900 crossings and carried almost 100,000 emigrant Scots. The book describes the enterprise and independence shown by the pioneers who were helped on their way by some remarkable characters such as Thomas Talbot, Lord Selkirk, John Galt, Archibald McNab and William Dickson. Providing a fascinating overview of the emigration process, it is essential reading for both historians and genealogists. Scots were some of the provinces earliest pioneers and they were always at the cutting edge of each new frontier. They were a founding people who had an enormous influence on the province’s early development. "I am happy to commend Lucille Campey’s latest book on Scottish settlement patterns in Canada. The product of meticulous research, The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada has much to offer both genealogists and general readers, as it weaves together statistical information, institutional histories and personal accounts to produce a fascinating picture of the multi-dimensional networks that underpinned the transatlantic movement and brought 100,000 Scots to Upper Canada during the seven decades reviewed. Persistent myths of helpless exile are challenged, as the preconditions and processes of emigration are analyzed, along with the cultural traditions imported by the ’trail blazers and border guards’ who laid the foundations of Canada’s most populous province." - Marjory Harper, Reader in History, University of Aberdeen "With a real feel for the sacrifice and the emotional turmoil of the pioneers, Lucille H. Campey has one again got her audience to face the raw heritage common to every Scots-Canadian. This is an excellent read, full of fascinating detail dug from much archival research. This book is another splendid addition to a series of much interest to both historians and genealogists." - Professor Graeme Morton, Scottish Studies Foundation Chair, University of Guelph
The Edinburgh Review
Author: Transatlantic Subjects
Author: Nancy ChristiePublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773578609
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 493
Book Description
Transatlantic Subjects dissents from four decades of scholarly writing on colonial Canada by taking the British imperial context - rather than the North American environment - as a conceptual framework for interpreting patterns of social and cultural life in the colonies prior to the 1850s. Anchored in "the new British history" advanced by J.G.A. Pocock, David Armitage, and Kathleen Wilson, this collective work explores ideas, institutions, and social practices that were adapted and changed through the process of migration from the British archipelago to the new settlement societies. Contributors discuss a broad range of institutional and social practices, including education, religion, radical politics, and family life. Transatlantic Subjects offers a new perspective for the writing of Canada's history. A self-conscious response to the plea for a broader British history that includes the overseas settlement colonies, it makes a significant contribution to the new cultural history of the British Empire. Contributors include Bruce Curtis (Carleton), Michael Eamon (Queen's), Darren Ferry (McMaster), Donald Fyson (Laval), Michael Gauvreau (McMaster), Jeffrey McNairn (Queen's), Bryan Palmer (Queen's), J.G.A. Pocock (Johns Hopkins), Michelle Vosburgh (Brock), Todd Webb (Laurentian), and Brian Young (McGill)."
Empire, Kinship and Violence
Author: Elizabeth ElbournePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108479227
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 447
Book Description
An ambitious account of Indigenous-settler relationships and struggles over Indigenous rights in British white settler colonies from the 1770s to 1830s.