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 441
... EMIGRATION 441 Men's needs being always stronger than the intelligence of their rulers , it is hardly surprising that the British Government , in the earlier years of the new emigration , was quite unequal to the de- mands made on it ...
... EMIGRATION 441 Men's needs being always stronger than the intelligence of their rulers , it is hardly surprising that the British Government , in the earlier years of the new emigration , was quite unequal to the de- mands made on it ...
Page 450
... Emigration under the Colonial Office . The Report of the Earl of Durham , and , more definitely , Wakefield's appendix on Land and Emigration , forced the Whig ministry to undertake specific measures for the control of the whole field ...
... Emigration under the Colonial Office . The Report of the Earl of Durham , and , more definitely , Wakefield's appendix on Land and Emigration , forced the Whig ministry to undertake specific measures for the control of the whole field ...
Page 453
... emigration numbers shot up to 258,270 in 1847. In the eight years from 1847 over two million and a half emigrants left the British Islands , the annus mirabilis being 1852 with 368,264.2 Doubtless many Englishmen and Scotsmen , some of ...
... emigration numbers shot up to 258,270 in 1847. In the eight years from 1847 over two million and a half emigrants left the British Islands , the annus mirabilis being 1852 with 368,264.2 Doubtless many Englishmen and Scotsmen , some of ...
Contents
CHAPTER I | 1 |
The Loyalists and Canada | 9 |
Rivalry with the Dutch | 15 |
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