HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Edward Gibbon Wakefield, Chain Migration, Royal Hospital Chelsea
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His312 lecture 4 september 27 2011. >> sought agents in canada to seek advice, but really up to them to find land and work. >> mainly talking about others provided for or arrange tickets across the atlantic. >> for people who could not afford a ticket on their own. >> not much of a paper trail, so trouble decided what they were up to in detail. >> when people were assisted, bureaucracies were drawn upon. >> in great britain there were debates as to whether this assistance was a good idea. >> was expensive to assist in significant numbers. >> people were reluctant spending money to help others. >> imperial plans to divert immigration from us to british colonies. >> produced a lot of pamphlets and encouraged systematic colonization. >> remove burden to the colonies and strengthen the british empire. >> employees that were protected by the elite.
