Chapter 2 Laying the Foundations: Yorkshire Emigration
Chapter 3 The Loyalists Who Followed
Chapter 4 Nova Scotia’s English Settlers: Two Types of English
Chapter 5 Scattered Far and Wide in New Brunswick
Chapter 6 With Ships to Launch: The Prince Edward Island English
Chapter 7 Newfoundland’s West Country Settlers
Chapter 8 The Home Children
Chapter 9 The Sea Crossing
Chapter 10 The English in Atlantic Canada
Appendix I Yorkshire Passenger Lists, 1774–1775
Explanatory Notes for Appendices II to IV
Appendix II Emigrant Ship Crossings from England to Nova Scotia
Appendix III Emigrant Ship Crossings from England to New Brunswick
Appendix IV Emigrant Ship Crossings from England to Prince Edward Island
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
2 Yorkshire Settler Locations in the Chignecto Isthmus, 1772–75
3 Yorkshire: The Main Region of Emigration, 1772–75
4 Locations of Loyalists in the Maritimes, 1785
5 Predominant Ethnic Groups in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1871
6 Predominant Religious Affiliations in Nova Scotia and Cape Breton
7 Nova Scotia Townships in 1767
9 Percentage of People in New Brunswick of English Origin, 1871
10 English Concentrations in Southern New Brunswick
11 Predominant Ethnic Groups in Prince Edward Island, 1881
12 English Settlements in Prince Edward Island
13 English Settlements along the “Old English Shore,” Newfoundland, 1675–77
14 English Concentrations in Eastern Newfoundland
* All maps are © Geoff Campey, 2010
1 Passenger Lists for Crossings from Liverpool to Halifax, 1862 and 1864
2 Passenger Lists for Crossings from English Ports to Saint John, 1833–34, 1838
3 Partial Passenger List for the Trafalgar Crossing from Hull to the Bay of Fundy in 1817
4 The “English” Emigrants Residing at Stanley, 1838
5 Harvey Families Who Ask for Land on the New St. Andrews Road, 1837
6 Partial Passenger List for the Valiant Crossing from Hull to Charlottetown, 1817
7 List of Ships, and the Men Taken in Them, from Poole, Waterford and Cork in 1811–12 to Work for Merchants at Trinity Bay
8 Robert Slade’s Servants at Trinity Bay, Fall 1811
9 Placements of Louisa Birt’s Liverpool Children in Nova Scotia, 1873–76
10 County Breakdown of Home Children Placements in Nova Scotia, 1873–76 (taken from Colonel Laurie’s List)
11 Placements of Middlemore Home Children from 1885–1930
12 Selected Emigrant Ships: Ship Quality and Passenger Numbers
I am indebted to a great many people. I would like to begin by thanking the many archivists in England and Canada who have helped me. In particular, I wish to thank Angela Broome at The Royal Institution of Cornwall in Truro, Kim Cooper at the Centre for Cornish Studies in Redruth, Renée Jackaman at the Devon Record Office in Exeter, Sally Morgan at the Dorset History Centre in Dorchester, Vicky Grindrod at the West Yorkshire Archive Service in Leeds, Angela Plumb, Sue Barnsley, and Heather Marshall at the Suffolk Record Office in Ipswich, and Bill Wexler and Emma Sealy at the Suffolk Record Office in Lowestoft. Special thanks are owed to Ruth Hobbins, Janice Uthing, Margaret Daley, Pauline Cass, Brenda Muller, and Margaret Parry at the Liverpool Record Office for their unstinting help. In Canada, I would like to thank Melanie Tucker at the Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, Gail Judge at the Nova Scotia Archives, Heather Lyons at the New Brunswick Archives, and Pam Wheatley at the Prince Edward Island Archives. As always there were many people at Library
