A Very Fine Class of Immigrants

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Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 145972089X
Total Pages : 205 pages
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Book Synopsis A Very Fine Class of Immigrants by : Lucille H. Campey

Download or read book A Very Fine Class of Immigrants written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies of early Scottish emigration to the New World have tended to concentrate on the miseries of evictions and the destruction of old communities. In this groundbreaking study of the influx of Scots to Prince Edward Island, the widely held assumption that emigration was solely a flight from poverty is challenged. By uncovering previously unreported ship crossings, as well as a wide range of manuscripts and underused sources such as customs records and newspaper shipping reports, the book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the influx of Scots to the Island. “A Very Fine Class of Immigrants” is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace family links or deepen their understanding of how and why the Island came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. And by accessing, for the first time, shipping sources like Lloyd’s List and the Lloyd’s Shipping Register, the author brings a new dimension to our understanding of emigrant travel. Campey demonstrates that far from sailing on disease-ridden leaky tubs, as popularly imagined, the Island’s Pioneer Scots usually crossed the Atlantic on the best available ships of the time.

Glenaladale Settlers 1772

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ISBN 13 : 9780995178304
Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Glenaladale Settlers 1772 by : Prince Edward Island Scottish Settlers Historical Society. Alexander Committee

Download or read book Glenaladale Settlers 1772 written by Prince Edward Island Scottish Settlers Historical Society. Alexander Committee and published by . This book was released on 2016-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... Tells the story of the 214 Scottish Catholic Highlanders who left their homes in the Western Highlands and Islands of Scotland on the brigantine Alexander, arriving in St John's Island, as Prince Edward Island was then called, to establish the first large settlement of Catholic Scots in Canada. Their leader John MacDonald, 8th Laird of Glenaladale and 7th Laird of Glenfinnan, hoped to create a feudal estate on his 40,000 acres (all of Lot 36 & later 35) on the Island. Descendants of these people form a significant part of Prince Edward Island's diaspora around the world. Capt John MacDonald is now recognized as a person of historic significance to Canada, as is his grandson Sir Wm. C. Macdonald"--

The Last Happy Year

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Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 9780888821546
Total Pages : 1264 pages
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Download or read book The Last Happy Year written by Rod Coneybeare and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare

Old and New World Highland Bagpiping

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 0773569790
Total Pages : 449 pages
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Download or read book Old and New World Highland Bagpiping written by John G. Gibson and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2002-05-22 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into community life, as well as an exhaustive synthesis of Scottish archival and secondary sources. Reflecting the invaluable memories of now-deceased new world Gaelic lore-bearers, John Gibson shows that traditional community piping in both the old and new world Gàihealtachlan was, and for a long time remained, the same, exposing the distortions introduced by the tendency to interpret the written record from the perspective of modern, post-eighteenth-century bagpiping. Following up the argument in his previous book, Traditional Gaelic Bagpiping, 1745-1945, Gibson traces the shift from tradition to modernism in the old world through detailed genealogies, focusing on how the social function of the Scottish piper changed and step-dance piping progressively disappeared. Old and New World Highland Bagpiping will stir controversy and debate in the piping world while providing reminders of the value of oral history and the importance of describing cultural phenomena with great care and detail.

Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island

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Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN 13 : 9780773505667
Total Pages : 262 pages
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Book Synopsis Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island by : J. M. Bumsted

Download or read book Land, Settlement, and Politics on Eighteenth-century Prince Edward Island written by J. M. Bumsted and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 1987 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Soon after Prince Edward Island was transferred from French to British sovereignty in 1763, virtually the entire land surface was turned over to private proprietors on the understanding that they would finance both settlement and the administration of the territory. While the proprietors did not fulfil their obligations, they clung tenanciously to their privileges, ultimately becoming an anachronistic group of landlords on a North American continent where freehold tenure was the norm. J.M. Bumsted goes beyond the previous "heroes" (residents) and "villains" (landlords) approach of much of Island historiography by demonstrating the intimate interweaving of the issues of land, politics, and settlement.

Voyagers to the West

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Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307798526
Total Pages : 721 pages
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Book Synopsis Voyagers to the West by : Bernard Bailyn

Download or read book Voyagers to the West written by Bernard Bailyn and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 721 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the Saloutos Prize of the Immigration History Society Bailyn's Pulitzer Prize-winning book uses an emigration roster that lists every person officially known to have left Britain for America from December 1773 to March 1776 to reconstruct the lives and motives of those who emigrated to the New World. "Voyagers to the West is a superb book...It should be equally admired by and equally attractive to the general reader as to the professional historian."--R.C. Simmons, Journal of American Studies

The Dalhousie Review

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Total Pages : 522 pages
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Four Billion Bucks

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Publisher : Grant MacDonald
ISBN 13 : 1440459924
Total Pages : 176 pages
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Download or read book Four Billion Bucks written by Grant MacDonald and published by Grant MacDonald. This book was released on 2009-02-10 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. PAUL GETTY; FBI FILE 100.1202, JUNE 26, 1940; ESPIONAGE. 43,000 people were killed in UK by the Nazis while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin shipping oil to Hitler. Jean Paul Getty's mother; Catherine Risher was German. Dec. 20, 1940 ... the New York Daily News wrote about Getty's involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants. FBI reported that Getty was still shipping oil to Hitler; June, 1941 ... nine months after London was being bombed ... five months before Pearl Harbor.

Districts, Documentation, and Population in Rupert’s Land (1740–1840)

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Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030327302
Total Pages : 147 pages
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Download or read book Districts, Documentation, and Population in Rupert’s Land (1740–1840) written by Aaron James Henry and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book interrogates how districts were used in British North America to inspect, and document indigenous people by the Hudson’s Bay Company (HBC). In particular, it examines how the HBC utilized districts to create a political geography that allowed for closer surveillance of indigenous people and stabilized debt. An initial examination of how the district was used to rework earlier 18th-century conducts of observation into the more ordered and spatially limited regime of inspection is undertaken, followed by an investigation of how the district became central to the HBC’s efforts to limit the movement of indigenous people, individualize hunters, and spur ‘industriousness’. The book points to how districts became key to a number of colonial projects, laying the infrastructure for the modern reserve system in Canada. In this sense, the book provides a critical genealogy of how the command of space and social vision shaped Canada’s colonial geography.

Scots in Canada

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Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1909912670
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (99 download)

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Download or read book Scots in Canada written by Jenni Calder and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Canada there are nearly as many descendants of Scots as there are people living in Scotland; almost 5 million Canadians ticked the "Scottish origin" box in the most recent Canadian Census. Many Scottish families have friends or relatives in Canada. Who left Scotland? Why did they leave? What did they do when they got there? What was their impact on the developing nation? Thousands of Scots were forced from their homeland, while others chose to leave, seeking a better life. As individuals, families and communities, they braved the wild Atlantic Ocean, many crossing in cramped under-rationed ships, unprepared for the fierce Canadian winter. And yet Scots went on to lay railroads, found banks and exploit the fur trade, and helped form the political infrastructure of modern day Canada. This book follows the pioneers west from Nova Scotia to the prairie frontier and on to the Pacific coast. It examines the reasons why so many Scots left their land and families. The legacy of centuries of trade and communication still binds the two countries, and Scottish Canadians keep alive the traditions that crossed the Atlantic with their ancestors. REVIEW: ...meticulously researched and fluently written... it neatly charts the rise of a country without succumbing to sentimental myths. SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY

Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930

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Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474459056
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Download or read book Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930 written by Karly Kehoe and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection offers new perspectives on the legacy of British colonisation by concentrating on Atlantic Canada, a region that was pivotal to safeguarding Britain's imperial ambitions, between 1750 and 1930.

Acadiensis

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Total Pages : 368 pages
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The People's Clearance

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Publisher : Univ. of Manitoba Press
ISBN 13 : 0887550657
Total Pages : 329 pages
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Download or read book The People's Clearance written by J.M. Bumsted and published by Univ. of Manitoba Press. This book was released on 1982-01-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a revisionist account of Highland Scottish emigration to what is now Canada, in the formative half century before Waterloo.

A Billion Bucks

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Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557575591
Total Pages : 167 pages
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Getty

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Publisher : Grant MacDonald
ISBN 13 : 1441445722
Total Pages : 175 pages
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Download or read book Getty written by Grant MacDonald and published by Grant MacDonald. This book was released on 2009-02-14 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: J. PAUL GETTY; FBI FILE 100.1202, JUNE 26, 1940; ESPIONAGE. 43,000 people were killed in UK by the Nazis while J. Paul Getty was in Berlin shipping oil to Hitler. Jean Paul Getty's mother; Catherine Risher was German. Dec. 20, 1940 ... the New York Daily News wrote about Getty's involvement with espionage at the Pierre Hotel in New York. 2003 documents declassified by UK Warfare Ministry reveal that Oct. 1941 the pro-Nazi Jean Paul Getty employed and lodged Nazis at his Pierre Hotel in New York City; Nazis who were involved in spying on and sabotaging Allied Forces' war production plants. FBI reported that Getty was still shipping oil to Hitler; June, 1941 ... nine months after London was being bombed ... five months before Pearl Harbor.

Place-names of Prince Edward Island with Meanings

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Total Pages : 64 pages
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Book Synopsis Place-names of Prince Edward Island with Meanings by : Canadian Board on Geographical Names

Download or read book Place-names of Prince Edward Island with Meanings written by Canadian Board on Geographical Names and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825

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Publisher : Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 336 pages
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Download or read book Directory of Scottish Settlers in North America, 1625-1825 written by David Dobson and published by Baltimore : Genealogical Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven volumes of lists of Scottish immigrants to North America between 1625 and 1825.