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Author Cameron, Wendy.

Title Assisting emigration to Upper Canada : the Petworth project, 1832-1837 / Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude.

Publication Info. Montreal [Que.] : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2000]
©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 354 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents ""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Tables, Figures, Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE: THE PETWORTH EMIGRATIONS FROM SUSSEX TO UPPER CANADA, 1832�1837""; ""Introduction""; ""1 ""Emigration ... the best if not the only remedy"": From ""Swing"" to Parish-Assisted Emigration""; ""2 ""Decent accommodation"": Setting a Standard for the Petworth Emigrations""; ""3 ""Pauperism [is] almost universal"": Who Were the Petworth Emigrants?""; ""4 ""Trouble in travelling"": Travelling and Finding a First Home in the Canadas""
""5 ""Domiciles of their own"": Assisted Settlement in Upper Canada""""6 ""Nothing will be done by the government"": Failed Plans for Assisted Settlement and the Ending of the Petworth Scheme""; ""7 Conclusion: The Petworth Emigrations and Assisted Emigration""; ""PART TWO: A LIST OF PETWORTH EMIGRANTS, 1832�1837""; ""Editors' Introduction""; ""Emigrants on Petworth Ships, 1832�1837""; ""Appendix A: Sockett and Wyndham Debate Poverty and Assisted Emigration""; ""Appendix B: Emigration from the British Isles, 1821�1851""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""
""Acknowledgments""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""
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Subject Petworth Emigration Committee.
Petworth Emigration Committee.
Petworth Emigration Committee.
Petworth Emigration Committee.
Immigrants -- Ontario -- Registers.
Immigrants.
Ontario.
Genre/Form Registers (Lists)
Subject Ontario -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
Emigration and immigration.
History.
Chronological Term 19th century
Subject England -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century.
England.
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- Government policy -- History -- 19th century.
Great Britain.
Government policy.
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form Electronic books.
History.
Registers (Lists)
Added Author Maude, Mary McD.
Other Form: Print version: Cameron, Wendy. Assisting emigration to Upper Canada. Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000 0773520341 (DLC) 2001411318 (OCoLC)43465746
ISBN 9780773568327 (electronic book)
0773568328 (electronic book)
0773520341
9780773520349