"Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers is the first comprehensive and detailed study ever to be written of English emigration to Canada. The first of three books on the English in Canada, it considers the f
This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the Hector in 1773, with nearly 200
Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth c
This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. Using wide-ranging sources, some previously untapped, Lucille Campey examines the driving
New Brunswicks enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century. As economic conditions in Scotland worsened, the flow of emigrants increased, creating distinctive Scot
The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been u
Provides an account of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada. This book considers the process of settlement and the harsh realities of life in the New World. It explains how Quebec province came to a
In her third and final book in the English in Canada series, Lucille Campey provides an overview of the great exodus from England to Canada which peaked in the early twentieth century. Drawing on wide
A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration to North America.Irish settlers were Canada’s largest immigrant group during
The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life tha
The days when Aberdeen's "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during the sailing sh
