The Cambridge History of the British Empire, Volume 2John Holland Rose, Arthur Percival Newton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Henry Dodwell The University Press, 1929 - Commonwealth countries |
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Page 509
... IMMIGRATION 509 suffered so severely from sickness that in 1842 further immigration from this source was for a time prohibited . A very material check to the immigration movement came when the British Government by an Order - in ...
... IMMIGRATION 509 suffered so severely from sickness that in 1842 further immigration from this source was for a time prohibited . A very material check to the immigration movement came when the British Government by an Order - in ...
Page 510
... immigration , which not only greatly increased its cost to the colonists , but also rendered it difficult for them ... immigration during the early years after emancipation in the colonies chiefly concerned can be seen from the following ...
... immigration , which not only greatly increased its cost to the colonists , but also rendered it difficult for them ... immigration during the early years after emancipation in the colonies chiefly concerned can be seen from the following ...
Page 715
... IMMIGRATION 715 Office , there was a rigid insistence on the stipulation that no contract might be entered into with an immigrant labourer which had a longer duration than one year . But in 1846 Mr Gladstone sanctioned three- year ...
... IMMIGRATION 715 Office , there was a rigid insistence on the stipulation that no contract might be entered into with an immigrant labourer which had a longer duration than one year . But in 1846 Mr Gladstone sanctioned three- year ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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