Title English immigrant voices : labourers' letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s / edited by Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, Mary McDougall Maude

Published Montreal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

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Description 1 online resource (lvi, 471 pages) : illustrations Series CEL - Canadian Publishers Collection Contents Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Abbreviations -- Editorial Note -- LETTERS -- 1832 [1�49] -- 1833 [50�93] -- 1834 [94�98] -- 1835 [99�103] -- 1836 [104�125] -- 1837 [126�131] -- 1838 AND LATER [132�144] -- ADDITIONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND MEMOIRS -- Wilson Correspondence [145�164] -- Chantler Correspondence [165�173] -- Frederick Hasted Letters [174�175] -- Wells' Letter [176] -- Knight Correspondence [177�179] -- Charles Adsett Autobiography [180] -- APPENDICES A Transcribed original manuscript lettersB Identification of People, Places, and Terms -- Notes to Preface and Introduction -- Sources -- Acknowledgments -- Letter-writers by Letter Number -- Letters by Place of Origin -- 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 -- Z Summary "This collection of letters opens new ground in Canadian social history - presenting a first-hand basis for Upper Canada's reputation as "a poor man's country." Editors Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and Mary McDougall Maude confront the questions of authenticity that surround working-class letters of this early date, using their work on assisted emigration under the Petworth Emigration Committee to identify the writers and place their letters in the context of the emigration scheme that enabled them to come to Canada. Their letters, written or dictated to family and friends, provide a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experience from a working-class perspective."--Jacket Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Immigrants -- Ontario -- Correspondence Working class -- Ontario -- Correspondence English -- Ontario -- Correspondence Immigrants -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Sources Working class -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Sources HISTORY -- Canada -- General. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration. English Immigrants Working class Ontario Genre/Form Electronic books History Personal correspondence Sources Form Electronic book Author Cameron, Wendy. Maude, Mary McD. Haines, Sheila. ISBN 9780773568334 0773568336 9780773569171 0773569170 077352178X 9780773521780

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