Imperial immigrants : Scottish settlers of the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840 / by Michael Vance.

Title
  1. Imperial immigrants : Scottish settlers of the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815-1840 / by Michael Vance.
Published by
  1. Toronto : Dundurn Press, 2012.
Author
  1. Vance, Michael E. (Michael Easton), 1959-

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Additional authors
  1. Gibson, Jane
Description
  1. 251 p. : ill., maps; 23 cm.
Summary
  1. Discusses how 19th century Scottish settlers crossed the Atlantic and settled in the Ottawa Valley.
Subject
  1. Scots > Ottawa River Valley (Québec and Ont.) > History > 19th century
  2. Ottawa River Valley (Québec and Ont.) > History > 19th century
  3. Scotland > History > 19th century
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Land and empire -- Early settlement and the imperial state -- The Breadalbane immigrants -- Paisley and the emigration societies -- Immigrant politics and religion -- Pioneer patriarchs -- Recalling and retelling -- Rideau Purcahse supplement -- Sergeant Simon Gray's discharge papers -- List of 1815 assisted Scottish emigrants settled in Lanark County -- Names, family details, and addresses of the signatories on the "petition of the operative manufacturers of Paisley, May 1820." -- Selected entries from "Auld Kirk" Kirk session minutes, Ramsay Township.
Owning institution
  1. Harvard Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-241) and index.
Additional formats (note)
  1. Issued also in electronic formats.
Processing action (note)
  1. committed to retain