Imperial Immigrants
Autor Michael Vanceen Limba Engleză Paperback – 17 aug 2012
Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are explored to reveal their impact on Upper Canada.
Seeking to transform their lives and their society, early Scots settlers crossed the Atlantic for their own purposes. Although they did not blindly serve the interests of empire builders, their settlement led to the dispossession of the original First Nation inhabitants, thus supporting the British imperial government’s strategic military goals. After transferring homeland religious and political conflict to the colony, Scottish settlers led the demand for political reform that emerged in the 1830s. As a consequence, their migration and settlement reveals as much about the depth of social conflict in the homeland and in the colonies as it does about the preoccupations of the British imperial state.
Seeking to transform their lives and their society, early Scots settlers crossed the Atlantic for their own purposes. Although they did not blindly serve the interests of empire builders, their settlement led to the dispossession of the original First Nation inhabitants, thus supporting the British imperial government’s strategic military goals. After transferring homeland religious and political conflict to the colony, Scottish settlers led the demand for political reform that emerged in the 1830s. As a consequence, their migration and settlement reveals as much about the depth of social conflict in the homeland and in the colonies as it does about the preoccupations of the British imperial state.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781554887569
ISBN-10: 1554887569
Pagini: 251
Ilustrații: 65
Dimensiuni: 156 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Dundurn Group (CA)
ISBN-10: 1554887569
Pagini: 251
Ilustrații: 65
Dimensiuni: 156 x 229 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: Dundurn Group (CA)
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Cuprins
Maps & Tables
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
One Land and Empire
Two Early Settlement and the Imperial State
Three The Breadalbane Emigration
Four Paisley and the Emigration Societies
Five Immigrant Politics and Religion
Six Pioneer Patriarchs
Seven Recalling and Retelling
Appendix I Rideau Purchase Supplement.
Appendix II Sergeant Simon Gray’s Discharge Papers.
Appendix III List of 1815 Assisted Scottish Emigrants Settled in Lanark County.
Appendix IV Surrender of the Crozier of St. Fillan.
Appendix V Petition of the Operative Manufacturers of Paisley, May 1820.
Appendix VI Articles and Notices from the Bathurst Independent Examiner & Bathurst Courier.
Appendix VII Kirk Session Minutes, “Auld Kirk,” Ramsay Township, Upper Canada.
Appendix VIII John Gemmill Correspondence.
Appendix IX Rev. William Bell Journal Entries.
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
One Land and Empire
Two Early Settlement and the Imperial State
Three The Breadalbane Emigration
Four Paisley and the Emigration Societies
Five Immigrant Politics and Religion
Six Pioneer Patriarchs
Seven Recalling and Retelling
Appendix I Rideau Purchase Supplement.
Appendix II Sergeant Simon Gray’s Discharge Papers.
Appendix III List of 1815 Assisted Scottish Emigrants Settled in Lanark County.
Appendix IV Surrender of the Crozier of St. Fillan.
Appendix V Petition of the Operative Manufacturers of Paisley, May 1820.
Appendix VI Articles and Notices from the Bathurst Independent Examiner & Bathurst Courier.
Appendix VII Kirk Session Minutes, “Auld Kirk,” Ramsay Township, Upper Canada.
Appendix VIII John Gemmill Correspondence.
Appendix IX Rev. William Bell Journal Entries.
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Notă biografică
Michael E. Vance is a professor of history at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. His research focuses on early nineteenth-century Scottish emigration, and he also has an interest in the nature of Scottish overseas identity. His previous publication with Natural Heritage Books, undertaken with co-editor Scott A. McLean, William Wye Smith: Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian, is an annotated edition of the unpublished memoir of a Scottish-born poet, newspaperman, and Congregational minister. Michael lives in Halifax.
Descriere
Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are explored to reveal their impact on Upper Canada.