03605nam 2200721Ia 450 991080705890332120230721014011.01-282-86608-797866128660810-7735-7561-810.1515/9780773575615(CKB)2670000000080576(SSID)ssj0000478245(PQKBManifestationID)11306615(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000478245(PQKBWorkID)10434227(PQKB)10865039(CEL)432862(CaBNvSL)slc00225654(MiAaPQ)EBC3271265(MiAaPQ)EBC3332017(Au-PeEL)EBL3332017(CaPaEBR)ebr10558966(CaONFJC)MIL286608(OCoLC)923233783(DE-B1597)657530(DE-B1597)9780773575615(EXLCZ)99267000000008057620080520d2007 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrEmigrant worlds and transatlantic communities[electronic resource] migration to Upper Canada in the first half of the nineteenth century /Elizabeth Jane ErringtonMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20071 electronic text (xii, 244 p. : ill., map) digital fileMcGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history. Series two ;240-7735-3266-8 0-7735-3265-X Includes bibliographical references and index.To go or not to go -- Bustle of preparation --Nether world on the Atlantic -- Into the "strange land" -- Transatlantic webs of kin and community -- Conclusion -- Note on sources: reading and writing about the emigrants' world.Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities gives voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerous world of emigration between 1815 and 1845. Using "information wanted" notices that appeared in colonial newspapers as well as emigrants' own accounts, Errington illustrates that emigration was a family affair. Individuals made their decisions within a matrix of kin and community - their experiences shaped by their identities as husbands and wives, parents and children, siblings and cousins. The Atlantic crossing divided families, but it was also the means of reuniting kin and rebuilding old communities. Emigration created its own unique world - a world whose inhabitants remained well aware of the transatlantic community that provided them with a continuing sense of identity, home, and family.McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history.Series two ;24.BritishKinshipOntarioHistory19th centuryImmigrantsFamily relationshipsOntarioHistory19th centuryFamiliesOntarioHistory19th centuryImmigrantsOntarioBiographyOntarioEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryGreat BritainEmigration and immigrationHistory19th centuryBritishKinshipHistoryImmigrantsFamily relationshipsHistoryFamiliesHistoryImmigrants306.85086/9120941Errington Elizabeth Jane1951-995795MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910807058903321Emigrant worlds and transatlantic communities4044726UNINA