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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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  • Imperial Immigrants

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

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  • Adventurers And Exiles: The Great Scottish Exodus

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

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  • Legacies of British Slave-Ownership

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