HIS312H1 Lecture 4: Lecture #4 - Oct.
Document Summary
Assisted immigration from britain: a minority movement of assisted immigrants, systematic colonization , parliamentary assistance, small projects, big consequences landlord assistance local assistance. Labourers who were brought over here from other states, left for the u. s. for better opportunities and land. Parliamentary assistance: sporadic initiatives: british treasury pays travel costs to colonies. The tipperary settlers: 1818 parliament agreed to assist some protestants from tipperary, Peter robinson settlers, 1823 and 1825: parliament concerned unrest in ireland, peter robinson of uc chosen to export irish trouble-makers, 568 irish catholics from cork area to almonte (near ottawa) in. Cartoon warning: paupers stealing bread from the honest working american man" paupers would work for so little, so that honest working american"s couldn"t get jobs. Emigration societies in scotland: fund-raising for emigration of unemployed, donating towards sending people away, for example, glasgow handloom weavers, 300 sent to uc, 1841, some successes.
