Description |
1 online resource (xi, 321 pages) : illustrations, plates, map |
Contents |
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 |
Summary |
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 |
Bibliography |
Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (pages 241-282) |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL pda |
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Print version record |
Subject |
Emigration and immigration
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SUBJECT |
Great Britain -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History
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Subject |
Canada
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Great Britain
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United States
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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ISBN |
9781442653177 |
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1442653175 |
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