HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Britishness, The Famine, Chain Migration
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Exceptions: newfoundland"s resident fishery, scots in nova scotia and pei, upper canada: glengarry scots. The great migration, 1815-65: canada = one destination for british emigrants, who were the immigrants, push and pull factors, the transatlantic passage, success . Went from a frontier backwater to a heartland: two periods, wartime, 1800-1815, the great migration, 1815-1865. Some exceptions: newfoundland, migratory fishery smaller, resident fishery grew, population increased from 20,000 to 35,000, english and irish immigrants, nova scotia and pei, 8,500 scots pushed from highlands and western isles, highland clearances. Where the owner of the estate plans, were found to be more lucrative about getting peasants away from their land. Figure: the brig hector which carried scots to nova scotia. The great migration"s wide impact: 4 million to u. s, 1. 5 million to canada, nearly 1 million to australia and new zealand. British north american population grew 6 fold: 600,000 to 3. 5 million: 38% to upper canada (ontario) = biggest province, reinforced britishness.
