Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed: Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots They Carried to Canada, 1774-1855
9781896219318, 1896219314
The days when Aberdeen's 'fast sailing and copper-bottomed' ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are br
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Table of contents :
Contents......Page 6
Tables and Figures......Page 8
Preface......Page 9
Acknowledgements......Page 12
Abbreviations......Page 13
I.THE EXODUS TAKES SHAPE......Page 16
II. EARLY ATLANTIC CROSSINGS, 1774–15......Page 25
III. THE TIMBER TRADE GROWS AND EMIGRANTS FOLLOW, 1816–30......Page 52
IV. UPPER CANADA BECKONS, 1831–1855......Page 62
V. CROMARTY AND THURSO: HIGHLAND GATEWAYS TO BRITISH AMERICA......Page 72
VI. THE ABERDEEN SAILING SHIPS WHICH CARRIED EMIGRANTS......Page 93
VII. EMIGRANT SEA VOYAGE: A GOOD OR BAD EXPERIENCE?......Page 112
VIII. NEW BRUNSWICK AND NOVA SCOTIA SETTLEMENTS......Page 127
IX. SETTLEMENTS IN WESTERN UPPER CANADA......Page 139
X. STEAM REPLACES SAIL......Page 154
APPENDIX A: Characteristics of the Aberdeen Sailing Ships which took Emigrants to British America......Page 157
1. The Ossian, from Cromarty to Pictou, June 29, 1821......Page 174
2. The Emperor Alexander, from Tobermory to Cape Breton, January 30, 1824......Page 176
Notes......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 197
A......Page 203
C......Page 204
D......Page 205
F......Page 206
H......Page 207
L......Page 208
M......Page 209
P......Page 211
R......Page 212
S......Page 213
W......Page 219
Z......Page 220
About the Author......Page 221