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Book Westcountrymen in Prince Edward s Isle

Download or read book Westcountrymen in Prince Edward s Isle written by Basil Greenhill and published by Douglas David & Charles. This book was released on 1967 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A history of the colonization of Prince Edward Island by emigrants from Devon, England, in the 19th century.

Book Shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island

Download or read book Shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island written by Nicolas De Jong and published by University of Ottawa Press. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed examination of wooden shipbuilding on Prince Edward Island traces the industry’s cycles of prosperity and decline, and describes the types of vessels built, production profiles and market orientation. Accounts of shipbuilding at the community level reveal the local impact of financing and constructing vessels, and document how the industry facilitated the distribution of timber and agricultural surpluses.

Book A Very Fine Class of Immigrants

Download or read book A Very Fine Class of Immigrants written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2007-05-15 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Previous studies of early Scottish emigration to the New World have tended to concentrate on the miseries of evictions and the destruction of old communities. In this groundbreaking study of the influx of Scots to Prince Edward Island, the widely held assumption that emigration was solely a flight from poverty is challenged. By uncovering previously unreported ship crossings, as well as a wide range of manuscripts and underused sources such as customs records and newspaper shipping reports, the book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the influx of Scots to the Island. “A Very Fine Class of Immigrants” is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace family links or deepen their understanding of how and why the Island came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. And by accessing, for the first time, shipping sources like Lloyd’s List and the Lloyd’s Shipping Register, the author brings a new dimension to our understanding of emigrant travel. Campey demonstrates that far from sailing on disease-ridden leaky tubs, as popularly imagined, the Island’s Pioneer Scots usually crossed the Atlantic on the best available ships of the time.

Book Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island

Download or read book Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island written by Rusty Bittermann and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2006-12-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 just rural order through petitions, meetings, rallies, electoral campaigns, and direct action. Landlords responded with their own collective action to protect their interests. In Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s. The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic World. The Escheat movement aimed at resolving the land question in favour of tenants by having the state resume (escheat) the large grants of land that created landlordism on the Island. Although it ultimately gained control of the assembly in the late 1830s, the Escheat movement did not produce the land policies that tenants and their allies advocated. The movement did, however, synthesize years of rural protest and produce a persistent legacy of language and ideas concerning land, justice, and the rights of small producers that helped to make landlordism on the Island unsustainable in the long term. Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island is a comprehensive and fascinating examination of an important, but often overlooked, period in the history of Canada's smallest province.

Book Ignored but Not Forgotten

Download or read book Ignored but Not Forgotten written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn.com. This book was released on 2014-09-10 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In her third and final book in the English in Canada series, Lucille Campey provides an overview of the great exodus from England to Canada which peaked in the early twentieth century. Drawing on wide-ranging documentary and statistical sources, Campey traces this major population movement on a region-by-region basis.

Book Sailor s Hope

Download or read book Sailor s Hope written by Rusty Bittermann and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of an important figure in the history of pre-Confederation Canada.

Book The Last Happy Year

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rod Coneybeare
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 1993
  • ISBN : 9780888821546
  • Pages : 1264 pages

Download or read book The Last Happy Year written by Rod Coneybeare and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1993 with total page 1264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare

Book An Unstoppable Force

    Book Details:
  • Author : Lucille H. Campey
  • Publisher : Dundurn
  • Release : 2008-05-06
  • ISBN : 1459712315
  • Pages : 355 pages

Download or read book An Unstoppable Force written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2008-05-06 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. Using wide-ranging sources, some previously untapped, Lucille Campey examines the driving forces behind the Scottish exodus and traces the remarkable progress of Scottish colonizers across Canada. Mythology and truth are considered side by side as their story unfolds. Scots had a profound impact on Canada and shaped the course of its history. This book is essential reading for those who wish to understand why they came and the enormity of their achievements in Canada.

Book Connected by the Sea

Download or read book Connected by the Sea written by Lucy Blue and published by Oxbow Books. This book was released on 2016-03-31 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 10th International Symposium on Boat and Ship Archaeology was held in Roskilde, Denmark in 2003. The theme of the meeting was "Connected by the Sea", and was designed to emphasize the role of the sea, seafaring and watercraft as bridges rather than barriers. Maritime archaeology tends to take place within national borders, with a national focus, yet the very premise of seafaring is the desire to travel beyond the horizon to establish contact with other places and cultures. The conference theme was chosen to encourage the maritime archaeological community to think in international terms.

Book Prince Edward Island

    Book Details:
  • Author : Prince Edward Island. Travel Bureau
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1946
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 35 pages

Download or read book Prince Edward Island written by Prince Edward Island. Travel Bureau and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book History of Prince Edward Island

Download or read book History of Prince Edward Island written by Duncan Campbell and published by Litres. This book was released on 2021-12-02 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "History of Prince Edward Island" by Duncan Campbell. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Book History of Prince Edward Island

Download or read book History of Prince Edward Island written by Duncan Campbell (Historian.) and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science  Literature and Art

Download or read book Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science Literature and Art written by Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of members in each volume.

Book British Tramp Shipping  1750 1914

Download or read book British Tramp Shipping 1750 1914 written by Robin Craig and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study explores the history of tramp-shipping in the United Kingdom, between 1750 and 1914. It defines 'tramp' as steamships exclusively hulled with iron or steel. The purpose of the journal is to keep the history of tramp-shipping from fading into obscurity, as the author believes the tramp steamer does not invoke sentimentality nor provide enough glamour to sustain the same level of maritime interest enjoyed by sailing ships or ocean liners. The study is split into four major sections, the first concerning tramp-shipping, ownership, and capital formation; the second concerning trade, specifically copper ore and African guano; the third studies tramp seamen - particularly sea masters; and the final and largest section considers individual tramp-shipping regions, further subdivided by region - Wales, the Northwest, the West Country, the Northeast, the Southeast, and Canada. The volume is punctuated with statistics, tables, charts, glossaries, and concludes with a bibliography of author Robin Craig's further maritime writing.

Book Discovering Prince Edward Island

Download or read book Discovering Prince Edward Island written by Prince Edward Island. Premier and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 35 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Maritime History at the Crossroads

Download or read book Maritime History at the Crossroads written by Frank Broeze and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to critically review the contemporary state of maritime historiography, as it stands at the volume’s publication date of 1995. The volume is comprised of thirteen essays, each focused on the recent research into the maritime concerns of a particular geographical location, listed as follows: Australia; Canada; China; Denmark; Germany; Greece; Ibero-America; India; the Netherlands; the Ottoman Empire; Spain; the United States; and a final chapter concerning historians and maritime labour in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand. One concern made evident by the collection is the lack of stable identity and cohesive aims within maritime history, the subject holds many conflicting definitions and concepts. The purpose of this volume is to explore the recent developments in maritime history, plus the growth of scholarly interest, to provide a ‘beacon and stimulus for future work’ and to clearly direct and define maritime historiography toward a solid position in the field of history.