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Author : Malcolm Alexander Macqueen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1897405960
Author : Malcolm a Macqueen
Publisher : Selkirk Stories
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-24
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 192649427X
Skye Pioneers and "The Island" by Malcolm A. Macqueen (1878-1960) was first published in 1929 by the Stovell Company in Winnipeg. It is one of the first, if not the first, published work of genealogy and family history treating the settlers from Skye, Scotland, who came to Prince Edward Island, Canada, in the 19th Century and went on to occupy positions of prominence in Canada and North America. This edition, published in conjunction with the Belfast Historical Society of Prince Edward Island, seeks to make this difficult-to-find work available to the general public in a reformatted and easy-to-read edition. The introduction, "Malcolm Macqueen and the Writing of Skye Pioneers," was researched and written specifically for this edition. Besides placing Skye Pioneers within the context of published North American genealogy, it provides a succinct biography of the author and suggests when and how he wrote the book. The introduction also gives insight into the author's goals and his view of the significance of the immigration from Skye for the development of Canada. This is a must-read book for anyone interested in the early Scottish settlement in North America and of particular value to the many today who are descended from the settlers who came from Skye aboard the Polly, Oughton and Dykes (1803) and the Mary Kennedy (1829).
Author : Malcolm Macqueen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1559320338
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:494085612
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2003-05-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781770704381
Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk. Its bicentennial is a timely reminder of Selkirk’s work in Canada, which extended beyond Belfast to Baldoon (later Wallaceburg) in Ontario, as well as to Red River, the precursor to Winnipeg. Aptly named "The Silver Chief" by the five Indian chiefs with whom he negotiated a land treaty at Red River, the fifth Earl of Selkirk spent an immense fortune in helping Scottish Highlanders relocate themselves in Canada. Selkirk has been well observed through the eyes of the rich and powerful, but his settlers have been neglected. Why did they leave Scotland? Which districts did they come from? Why did they settle in Canada? Why did Selkirk help them? How successful were their settlements? What impact did they have on Canada’s early development? Did Selkirk realize his ambitions for Canada? In answering these questions, Lucille H. Campey presents a new and powerful case for re-assessing the achievements of Selkirk and his settlers. Using a wealth of documentary sources, she reconstructs the sequence of emigration from Scotland to the three areas of Canada where settlements were founded. She shows that emigration took place in a carefully planned and controlled way. She reveals the self-reliance, adaptability and steely determination of the Selkirk settlers in overcoming their many problems and obstacles. They brought their rich traditions of Scottish culture to Canada and, in doing so, helped to secure its distinctively Canadian future. Together, Selkirk and his settlers succeeded against overwhelming odds and altered the course of history.
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781554880607
Previous studies of early Scottish emigration to the New World have tended to concentrate on the miseries of evictions and the destruction of old communities. In this groundbreaking study of the influx of Scots to Prince Edward Island, the widely held assumption that emigration was solely a flight from poverty is challenged. By uncovering previously unreported ship crossings, as well as a wide range of manuscripts and underused sources such as customs records and newspaper shipping reports, the book provides the most comprehensive account to date of the influx of Scots to the Island. “A Very Fine Class of Immigrants” is essential reading for individuals wishing to trace family links or deepen their understanding of how and why the Island came to acquire its distinctive Scottish communities. And by accessing, for the first time, shipping sources like Lloyd’s List and the Lloyd’s Shipping Register, the author brings a new dimension to our understanding of emigrant travel. Campey demonstrates that far from sailing on disease-ridden leaky tubs, as popularly imagined, the Island’s Pioneer Scots usually crossed the Atlantic on the best available ships of the time.
Author : Harold S. MacLeod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04
Category : Prince Edward Island
ISBN : 1926494105
"Genealogical tables of the MacLeod families who settled in Prince Edward Island in the 19th century. Transcripts of cemetery headstones of MacLeod settlers from Prince Edward Island cemeteries."--
Author : Malcolm a Macqueen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1926494342
Originally published in 1957, Hebridean Pioneers by Malcolm A. Macqueen presents a thorough, well-researched account of the Scottish immigration to North America, and more specifically Prince Edward Island, Canada. Hebridean Pioneers is the result of 40 years of research and travel on the part of the author, who retired from a successful career in law and real estate to devote his time and energy to investigating the origins of his people, the Scots who left the Highlands for a new life in a new world.Skye Pioneers and "The Island" (1929), Macqueen's first book, is one of the earliest and best known works of genealogy and family history published in Canada. Hebridean Pioneers improves on Skye Pioneers. It is carefully written, well documented, and rich in the kind of source material historians and genealogists seek: names, facts, dates and places. Yet Hebridean Pioneers is far less cited than Macqueen's earlier work, and less often consulted.This new edition seeks to make this resource more widely available with a reformatted, easy-to-read text. This edition includes not only the entire text of the original edition, but also an introduction and an index of names, making the work more accessible and easier to use as a reference book. We hope it is of use to researchers seeking information about their ancestors or the history of Scottish immigration to Canada.
Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781550027716
P.E.I. was the first Canadian area to acquire Scottish pioneers. Its colonization by Scots occurred when the process of immigration and settlement was in its infancy.
Author : Laurel Sefton MacDowell,Ian Walter Radforth
Publisher : Canadian Scholars’ Press
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781551302980
Canadian Working-Class History: Selected Readings, Third Edition, is an updated version of the bestselling reader that brings together recent and classic scholarship on the history, politics, and social groups of the working class in Canada. Some of the changes readers will find in the new edition include better representation of women scholars and nine provocative and ground-breaking new articles on racism and human rights; women's equality; gender history; Quebec sovereignty; and the environment.
Author : Terry Kenneth Pratt
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0802079040
Strupac, fornenst, trappy, scriss, kippy, snool, flying axehandles, from across - these and hundreds of other fascinating and colourful words and phrases give the English language as it has been spoken in Canada's smallest province a flavour all its own. With the Dictionary of Prince Edward Island English, T.K. Pratt makes a major scholarly contribution to the growing list of regional dictionaries that enable us to discover the rich heritage of the language as spoken throughout North America; at the same time it offers a splendid general introduction to the historical and sociological life of the island. There are approximately 1000 entries of non-standard or dialect words, past and present. The notes deal with usage, pronunciation, alternate forms and spellings, and stylistic and regional labels. Entries include definitions, supportive quotations from P.E.I. sources, editorial notes about various subtleties, and dictionary notes which provide links to some thirty-five other dictionaries. Pratt's introduction defines the criteria for inclusion of words, explains his research methods, and outlines the layout of entries. The end matter includes a bibliography and an important sociolinguistic essay, 'The Dictionary in Profile,' which places the work in the broader context of Prince Edward Island speech. Its range and depth of coverage make this an essential work not only for those concerned with P.E.I. and Maritimes studies, but for all those interested in the regional usage of English.
Author : Rusty Bittermann
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 385 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780802072290
In "Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island", Rusty Bittermann examines this conflict and the dynamic of rural protest on the Island from its establishment as a British colony in the 1760s to the early 1840s. The focus of Bittermann's study is the remarkable mass movement known as the Escheat movement, which emerged in the 1830s in the context of growing popular challenges elsewhere in the Atlantic World. The Escheat movement aimed at resolving the land question in favour of tenants by having the state resume (escheat) the large grants of land that created landlordism on the Island. Although it ultimately gained control of the assembly in the late 1830s, the Escheat movement did not produce the land policies that tenants and their allies advocated.
Author : Ruth Compton Brouwer
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 9781487525569
All Things in Common explores the history of a Canadian utopian community, highlighting the roles of family, faith, and business pragmatism in its cohesion and longevity.
Author : Julie V. Watson
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1996-07-25
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780888821669
In the 450 years since Jacques Cartier's arrival, Prince Edward Island's history has been tied to the sea and to ships. From the first explorers through immigrants, traders, sailors, and fishermen, thousands of seafaring people and their ships have come and gone -- many lost to the relentless sea. Julie Watson has dug through the archives and unearthed harrowing accounts, from the expulsion of the Acadians to the amazing 1836 adventure of Tommy Tuplin, age six, who was washed overboard in a storm then washed back into the ship's rigging. This book includes fascinating stories of buried treasure, legends of ghost ships, and tales of storms that have become part of the island's history and folklore. Add to these stories of seal hunts, waterspouts, U-boats, and ice boats, and you start to share in what it means to be an islander -- and what the unforgiving sea can yield.
Author : Rod Coneybeare
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 1264 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0888821549
The Last Happy Year: A Novel by Rod Coneybeare