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  • Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island

    From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement

    by Rusty Bittermann ...
    Who has the more legitimate claim to land, settlers who occupy and improve it with their labour, or landlords who claim ownership on the basis of imperial grants? This question of property rights, and their construction, was at the heart of rural protest on Prince Edward Island for a century. Tenants resisted landlord claims by squatting and refusing to pay rent. They fought for their vision of a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island

    Imperial Dreams and the Defence of Property

    by Rusty Bittermann, Margaret McCallum ...
    The 1767 decision to divide Prince Edward Island among elite British grantees shaped Island history for more than a century. Lady Landlords of Prince Edward Island examines this history through the lives of four women who, due to the vagaries of family formation and inheritance, became Island landlords. As absentee owners of large estates, each of the four women faced challenges from those who ... Read more

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

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  • Seeking a Better Future

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    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 undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey ... Read more

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  • Imperial Immigrants

    The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815–1840

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  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

    The Great Scottish Exodus

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  • The Canada Company and the Huron Tract, 1826-1853

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    The Canada Company was responsible for the opening and settling of over two million acres of land in Upper Canada. Author Robert C. Lee focuses his attention on the extensive parcel of land on the shores of Lake Huron that became known as the Huron Tract. His comprehensive research explores the underlying forces leading to the formation of the Company, the intriguing mix of people charged with ... Read more

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  • The Famine Irish

    Emigration and the Great Hunger

    Edited by Ciaran Reilly ...
    From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a remarkable insight into one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland's history. ... Read more

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    British and Irish Migration

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