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English Immigrant Voices

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About this title: 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. 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 ... read more

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English Immigrant Voices. {Signed} used book

English Immigrant Voices. {Signed}

by Cameron, Weny, Haines, Sheila, Maude, Mary McDougall[Edited By].

price: £45.76

Ships from ON, CANADA

Edition: First Edition Binding: Hard Cover Publisher: Mcgill-Queens University Press, Montreal. Date Published: 2000 ISBN-13: 9780773520356 ISBN: 077352035X

Description: Near Fine. in Near Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A near fine copy of the first edition. In near fine jacket. No tears. Inscribed and SIGNED by WENDY CAMERON and MARY MacDougall MAUDE> VERY SCARCE thus. read more

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Name: Richard Beairsto Books, ON, CANADA

Reliability: Excellent

English Immigrant Voices. Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830'S. {Signed}. used book

English Immigrant Voices. Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830'S. {Signed}.

by Cameron, Weny, Haines, Sheila, Maude, Mary McDougall[Edited By].

price: £72.39

Ships from ON, CANADA

Edition: First Edition Binding: Hard Cover Publisher: Mcgill-Queens University Press, Montreal. Date Published: 2000 ISBN-13: 9780773520356 ISBN: 077352035X

Description: Fine in Fine jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. A fine copy in a fine jacket. SIGNED by two of the three editors, Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude at the end of a presentation inscription by Rev.....Dated December/2, 2000. read more

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Book: Fine/Like New

 

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Name: Richard Beairsto Books, ON, CANADA

Reliability: Excellent

English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s new book

English Immigrant Voices: Labourers' Letters From Upper Canada in the 1830s

price: £117.84

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Binding: Hardcover Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press Date Published: 2001 ISBN-13: 9780773520356 ISBN: 077352035X

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Book: New

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