English Immigrant Voices : Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in The 1830s
ISBN: 9780773568334
Platform/Publisher: Ebook Central / McGill-Queen''s University Press
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Subjects: History;

Emigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee were part of a wave of rural workers in the 1830s whose immigration to Upper Canada was sponsored by English parishes and landlords. Their letters written or dictated to family and friends, leave us a rare first-hand view of the immigrant experience from a working-class perspective.


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