Assisting emigration to Upper Canada : the Petworth Project, 1832-1837 / Wendy Cameron and Mary McDougall Maude.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cameron, Wendy.

Contributor:

Maude, Mary McD.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

British--Ontario--History--19th century.

British.

Immigrants--Ontario--Registers.

Immigrants.

Ontario--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

Ontario.

England--Emigration and immigration--History--19th century.

England.

Great Britain--Emigration and immigration--Government policy--History--19th century.

Great Britain.

Petworth Emigration Committee.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (371 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Petworth Project, 1832-1837

Place of Publication:

Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Using a rich collection of contemporary sources, this study focuses on one group of English immigrants sent to Upper Canada from Sussex and other southern counties with the aid of parishes and landlords. In Part One, Wendy Cameron follows the work of the Petworth Emigration Committee over six years and trace how the immigrants were received in each of these years. In Part Two, Mary McDougall Maude presents a complete list of emigrants on Petworth ships from 1832 to 1837, including details of their background, family reconstructions, and additional information drawn from Canadian sources. Paternalism strong enough to slow the wheels of change is embodied here in Thomas Sockett, the organizer of the Petworth emigrations, and his patron, the Earl of Egremont, and in Lieutenant Governor Sir John Colborne in Upper Canada. The friction created as these men sought to sustain older values in the relationship between rich and poor highlights the shift in British emigration policy. In these years of transition immigrants sent by the Petworth Emigration Committee could accept assistance and the government direction that went with it, or they could rely on their own resources and find work for themselves. Once the transition was complete, the market-driven model took over and immigrants had to make their own best bargain for their labour.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Illustrations""; ""Tables, Figures, Maps""; ""Foreword""; ""Preface""; ""PART ONE: THE PETWORTH EMIGRATIONS FROM SUSSEX TO UPPER CANADA, 1832�1837""; ""Introduction""; ""1 ""Emigration ... the best if not the only remedy"": From ""Swing"" to Parish-Assisted Emigration""; ""2 ""Decent accommodation"": Setting a Standard for the Petworth Emigrations""; ""3 ""Pauperism [is] almost universal"": Who Were the Petworth Emigrants?""; ""4 ""Trouble in travelling"": Travelling and Finding a First Home in the Canadas""

""5 ""Domiciles of their own"": Assisted Settlement in Upper Canada""""6 ""Nothing will be done by the government"": Failed Plans for Assisted Settlement and the Ending of the Petworth Scheme""; ""7 Conclusion: The Petworth Emigrations and Assisted Emigration""; ""PART TWO: A LIST OF PETWORTH EMIGRANTS, 1832�1837""; ""Editors' Introduction""; ""Emigrants on Petworth Ships, 1832�1837""; ""Appendix A: Sockett and Wyndham Debate Poverty and Assisted Emigration""; ""Appendix B: Emigration from the British Isles, 1821�1851""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""

""Acknowledgments""""Index""; ""A""; ""B""; ""C""; ""D""; ""E""; ""F""; ""G""; ""H""; ""I""; ""J""; ""K""; ""L""; ""M""; ""N""; ""O""; ""P""; ""Q""; ""R""; ""S""; ""T""; ""U""; ""V""; ""W""; ""Y""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [332]-343) and index.

ISBN:

1-282-85851-3

9786612858512

0-7735-6832-8