English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s [Hardcover]

Wendy Cameron (Author), Sheila Haines (Author), Mary McDougall Maude (Author)

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Hardcover: 696 pages
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press; annotated edition edition (Aug 30 2000)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 077352035X
ISBN-13: 978-0773520356
Product Dimensions: 25.2 x 18.3 x 4.4 cm
Shipping Weight: 1.2 Kg
Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #521,265 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Collected from published, archival, and private sources, these letters place the Petworth immigrants in the context of their times and challenge the image of English immigrants to 1830s Upper Canada as officers and gentlewomen. Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, and Mary McDougall Maude have carefully annotated the letters to sketch the stories of individual writers, link letters by the same author or members of the same family, and explore the connections between writers. What eventually happened to some of the writers is also revealed in this engaging collection. English Immigrant Voices provides a valuable insight into the rural poor and their experiences in emigrating to a new land.