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Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century...
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by Elizabeth Jane Errington
Sales Rank: 1725091
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List Price: $29.95
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Cover Type: Paperback with 244 pages
Published by: McGill-Queen's University Press December 2007
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0773532668
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0773532663
Book Dimensions:
8.8 x 6 x 0.7 inches
Weighs: 12.8 ounces
Product Review
"Firmly grounded in the journals, diaries, and letters of emigrants who sailed from Britain and Ireland for Upper Canada between 1815 and 1845, Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities is a marvellously empathetic account of the emigrant experience." Catharine Wilson, History, University of Guelph
Product Description
In the fall of 1931, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family. As Elizabeth Jane Errington illustrates, the nineteenth-century world of emigration was hazardous. 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.
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