Lucille H. Campey
Autor de The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855: Glengarry and Beyond
Sobre El Autor
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Obras de Lucille H. Campey
A Very Fine Class of Immigrants: Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850 (2001) 36 copias
"Fast sailing and copper-bottomed" : Aberdeen sailing ships and the emigrant Scots they carried to Canada, 1774-1855 (2002) 21 copias
Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers: English Settlers in Atlantic Canada (The English in Canada) (2010) 17 copias
The Silver Chief : Lord Selkirk and the Scottish pioneers of Belfast, Baldoon and Red River (2003) 16 copias
Seeking a Better Future: The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec (The English in Canada) (2012) 15 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- Canada
- Educación
- University of Ottawa
Miembros
Reseñas
McLaren, McEwen, McIntyre, Storie
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 14
- Miembros
- 277
- Popularidad
- #83,813
- Valoración
- 4.5
- Reseñas
- 3
- ISBNs
- 44
I found this an easy reference for passenger lists on various ships that ferried the immigrants to North America. Overall, however, the book was quite dry reading. I'm not a genealogist, so cannot comment on how useful other readers might find Campey's reference. I did learn from the passenger lists what an appalling level of chicanery occurred in deceiving passengers. Some reports detail landing immigrants at ports at which they did not want to disembark. There was a prevalence of death in the crossings, with many dying of small pox during the voyage and after landing. One forgets what the realities were like in travel. The conditions must have been so ghastly and I was amazed at how many very young children actually survived the trip.… (más)