 | English Immigrant Voices: Labourers'' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s Subjects: Immigrants -- Ontario -- Correspondence; Working class -- Ontario -- Correspondence; English -- Ontario -- Correspondence; Immigrants’ writings Canadian (English); Immigrants -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century -- Sources; Working class -- Ontario -- H; 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. |
