English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s
Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, Mary MaudeEmigrants 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.
Année:
2000
Editeur::
McGill-Queen's University Press
Langue:
english
Pages:
696
ISBN 10:
0773568336
ISBN 13:
9780773568334
Fichier:
PDF, 33.19 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2000