Ebook: English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters from Upper Canada in the 1830s
Author: Wendy Cameron, Sheila Haines, Mary Maude
- Year: 2000
- Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
- Language: English
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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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