HIS312H1 Lecture : Assisted Immigration from Britain
Document Summary
Debates in brit about whether or not to fund the immigration. Some said yes, had to colonize the immigrants. Others said no, they would fund their way anyway. In the end the laissez-fair argument won out. Weirdly the small amount of assisted immigration better documented, then the larger self-directed immigration. As the gov"t, the press kept records and wrote. Systematic colonization, from 1829 onwards edward gibbon wakefield argued that crown land everywhere in the globe, that the land only be sold at a high price. So that only prosperous ppl would be able to farm, who would develop the land as they had the means. And so would create estates, and recreate the lords and peasant system of britain. Sometimes worked in australia, a relatively isolated place. But didn"t work in canada, as ppl just went to the us for cheaper land. By lord bathurst, developed by the gov"t, just after the great wars.
