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The Great Migration (Second Edition)
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Edwin Guillet
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English
Published/Copyright:
1963
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Mr. Guillet has located records never before consulted, found contemporary descriptions not previously used, and presented excerpts from diaries, narratives, letters, and emigrant guidebooks formerly accessible only in museum and archives collections.
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Guillet Edwin :
Edwin C. Guillet (1898-1975) was educated at the University of Toronto (B.A. 1922) and at McMaster University (B.A. 1926; M.A. 1927). He joined the staff of Lindsay Collegiate in 1923 and the Central Technical School in Toronto in 1926, remaining until 1934. From 1958 to 1962 he served as research historian with the Ontario Department of Public Records and Archives. In 1963 he was appointed consultant on Canadiana to the Library of Trent University. He was the author of Early Life in Upper Canada and many other books, was noted especially for his works on social and local history.
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Frontmatter
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PREFACE
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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CHAPTER I. THE BRITISH BACKGROUND
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CHAPTER II. STATE REGULATION OF PASSENGER VESSELS
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CHAPTER III. ASSISTED EMIGRATION
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CHAPTER IV. UNASSISTED EMIGRATION—PREPARING FOR A NEW LAND
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CHAPTER V . PROCEEDING TO THE SEAPORT
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CHAPTER VI. ARRANGING FOR THE VOYAGE
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CHAPTER VII. FAREWELL TO THE OLD LAND
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CHAPTER VIII. DAILY LIFE IN THE STEERAGE
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CHAPTER IX. STORK AND MISERY
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CHAPTER X. CHOLERA AND SHIP FEVER
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CHAPTER XI. THE TANG OF THE SEA
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CHAPTER XII. THE CABIN PASSAGE
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CHAPTER XIII. SHIPWRECK AND DISASTER
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CHAPTER XIV. NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE GULF
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CHAPTER XV. "PURIFICATION" AT GROSSE ISLE
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CHAPTER XVI. QUEBEC AND MONTREAL
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CHAPTER XVII. ASCENDING THE ST. LAWRENCE
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CHAPTER XVIII. ENTERING AT NEW YORK
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CHAPTER XIX. THE HUDSON ROUTE
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CHAPTER XX. PROCEEDING TO THE SETTLEMENT
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CHAPTER XXI. THE PROMISED LAND
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CHAPTER XXII. THE PASSING OF THE SAILING-SHIP
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INDEX
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SUPPLEMENT TO The Great Migration 1962
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March 18, 2019
eBook ISBN:
9781487596262
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