|
|
Family Tree Maker
2012 for PC
Family Tree Maker
For Mac
|
|
|
BOOK - Emigration: The British Farmer's and Farm Labourer's Guide To Ontario (1880)
By "Issued by authority of the Government of Canada"
Published by Global Heritage Press
This book is a historical reprint of a nineteenth century publication (1880) that was produced for potential emigrants from the United Kingdom to Ontario, Canada.
Outstanding background information for those researching immigration and settlement in Canada during the last half of the nineteenth century. Topics include:
- Why should I emigrate?
- Whither Shall I Emigrate
- What Ontario Has to Offer
- Accessibity To Markets
- Ontario Counties - soil, products, industries, communications inforamtion listed by county
- Agricultural industry in Ontario - crops markets and comparisions to USA
- Personal experiences of farm labourers in Ontario
- Demand for farm labourers and domestic servants
- The Free (land) Grant Territory (including a fold out map)
- Game (hunting)
- Cost of farm impliments
- Cost of clothing
- Postal facilities
- Telegraphs
- Rate of interest
- Instructions to emigrants - outfit; luggage; on board ship; on arrival at Quebec; Money table.
- Canadian emigration agents in the United Kingdon
- British testimony to Ontario as an agricultural country
- Meteorological, temperature, etc...
The book provides a detailed if somewhat optomistic view of Ontario places, land grants, education, political organization, freedom of faith, medical facilities, administration of laws, etc to help prepare the potential emigrant for their decision of whether to emigrate to Ontario or not.
This reprint was originally published by C. Blacket Robinson, Toronto 1880
108 pgs; acid free paper; hard-cover; illus, map; ISBN 1-894378-43-1
More Canadian Genealogy & History Resources from Global Genealogy:
O R D E R D E S K
1-800-361-5168( 9-5 Monday to Friday )
|
|
|
Flip-Pal
Mobile Scanner
The Flip-Pal Mobile Scanner is small, lightweight and does a top-notch job scanning photographs, documents and just about anything you can think of.... without a computer.......
Read on...
Researching Your Irish Ancestors
at Home and Abroad
Dr. Elliott gives clues to finding your ancestral county, then the parish and townland within the county. He explains how Irish archival centres work and describes how you can flesh out your ancestors’ lives and what you might find in cemeteries and....
Read on...
Irish Genealogy Series,
Cemetery, Parish &
Poor Law Union Records
This is an ongoing series with more books to be added each year. So far, Dr. Elliott has published the following books in his....
Read on...
Canadian Battlefields 1915–1918,
A Visitor's Guide
Focuses on the Ypres Salient, Passchendaele, Vimy, and the “Hundred Day”s battles and considers lesser-known battlefields as well. Battle maps, contemporary maps, photographs, and....
Read on...
First Métis Families
of Quebec, 1622-1748
Volume 1: 56 Families traces the descendants of the 56 original Métis families for up to three generations. Richly detailed, fully sourced, and indexed, this work.......
Read on...
Tracing Your Ancestors
from 1066 to 1837
[England]
Jonathan Oates’s handbook is an essential introduction for anyone who is keen to take their family history research back into the more distant past.....
Read on...
Some Early Scots
in Maritime Canada
Volume Three
This final volume of Some Early Scots in Maritime Canada identifies thousands of Scots who immigrated to Maritime Canada in the years between the 1770s and the 1870s--most of them located by.......
Read on...
Old County Maps
England 1836
This new digital media edition of Thomas Moule's Old County Maps of England 1836 faithfully reproduces the original detail and artistry of this fine cartographer.......
Read on...
|
|
|
| |
Ontario, Canada 
