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Record Nr.

UNINA9910798883503321

Autore

Cowan Helen I.

Titolo

British emigration to British North America : the first hundred years / / Helen I. Cowan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1961

©1961

ISBN

1-4426-3772-2

1-4426-5317-5

Edizione

[Revised and enlarged edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 pages) : illustrations, map, tables

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

304.8

Soggetti

Emigration and immigration

History

Electronic books.

Great Britain Emigration and immigration History

Canada Emigration and immigration History

United States Emigration and immigration History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.