The Great Migration (Second Edition) /

The Great Migration (Second Edition) / / Edwin Guillet.

Here is a record of one of history's great migrations, the Atlantic Migration to the New World, especially from 1770 to 1890, when eleven million people came from the British Isles to North America. The slow crossing by sailing ship was unpleasant even in the best accommodation, but for the poo...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Guillet, Edwin,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1963
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (350 p.) :; hts throughout
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • PREFACE
  • CONTENTS
  • ILLUSTRATIONS
  • CHAPTER I. THE BRITISH BACKGROUND
  • CHAPTER II. STATE REGULATION OF PASSENGER VESSELS
  • CHAPTER III. ASSISTED EMIGRATION
  • CHAPTER IV. UNASSISTED EMIGRATION—PREPARING FOR A NEW LAND
  • CHAPTER V . PROCEEDING TO THE SEAPORT
  • CHAPTER VI. ARRANGING FOR THE VOYAGE
  • CHAPTER VII. FAREWELL TO THE OLD LAND
  • CHAPTER VIII. DAILY LIFE IN THE STEERAGE
  • CHAPTER IX. STORK AND MISERY
  • CHAPTER X. CHOLERA AND SHIP FEVER
  • CHAPTER XI. THE TANG OF THE SEA
  • CHAPTER XII. THE CABIN PASSAGE
  • CHAPTER XIII. SHIPWRECK AND DISASTER
  • CHAPTER XIV. NEWFOUNDLAND AND THE GULF
  • CHAPTER XV. "PURIFICATION" AT GROSSE ISLE
  • CHAPTER XVI. QUEBEC AND MONTREAL
  • CHAPTER XVII. ASCENDING THE ST. LAWRENCE
  • CHAPTER XVIII. ENTERING AT NEW YORK
  • CHAPTER XIX. THE HUDSON ROUTE
  • CHAPTER XX. PROCEEDING TO THE SETTLEMENT
  • CHAPTER XXI. THE PROMISED LAND
  • CHAPTER XXII. THE PASSING OF THE SAILING-SHIP
  • INDEX
  • SUPPLEMENT TO The Great Migration 1962

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