Towards Quebec: Two Mid-19th Century Emigrants' Journals (Recollections, New S.) - Hardcover

National Maritime Museum

 
9780112903352: Towards Quebec: Two Mid-19th Century Emigrants' Journals (Recollections, New S.)

Synopsis

70 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in As new condition throughout. Most Studies Of The Great Migration In Which Some Seven And A Half Million People Crossed The Atlantic From Britain To Canada In Sailing Vessels Between 1815 And 1860 Have Dwelt On Aspects Of The Mass Movement Which Seem Horrific To Us Today. There Was Much Hardship And The Human Cargoes Were Often Exploited, Especially During The Years Of The Irish Famine When Migration Was As Its Height.

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