Col. and Mrs. Smith labored over a decade, to construct this vast index of heretofore widely scattered Nova Scotia immigrants from numerous archives in North America and abroad(Part 1); and from 450 articles in Nova Scotia periodicals (Part 2). Easily the most comprehensive sourcebook on Nova Scotia immigrants ever published, and a great tool for New England ancestral research, whether the ancestor's origins are Scottish, Irish, English, German, or Loyalist.
A Dictionary of Immigrants to Nova Scotia: Pre-confederation peninsular immigrants from manuscript sources
... Robert John , 1677 Grafstein , Ann , 2902 Graham , Robert J. , 2590 , 2594 Graham - Bell , Maggie , 2029 Grammond ... 3306 Harris , Geraldine Alton , 54 Harris , Herbert Raymond , 3106 Harris , Jane E. , 2469 Harris , Lesley Ellen ...
The authors are passionate about having the immigration story recorded for future generations.
"Between 1789 and 1815 dozens of sovereignties in Europe were extinguished.
... McKay Roderick McKay Donald McKay Alex Cameron Mary Cameron Donald McKay William McKay Margaret McKay Christopher McKay Catherine McKay Margaret McKay ]ohn McKay Mary McKay William McKay Donald McKay William McKay (piper) Magdalene ...
Montbeliard Immigration to Nova Scotia, 1749-1752
... Meeting of the Toronto Magdalene Asylum was held in the Hall of the Mechanics ' Institute on Friday evening . ... Mr. James Lesslie then read the Second Annual Report of the Asylum Report In the early part of the year 1853 some ...
A Dictionary of Scottish Emigrants to Canada Before Confederation
Rees, Some Other Place than Here, 62–65. Rees, Surplus People: From Wicklow to Canada, 109–13. Landlord assistance was provided to 1,582 Gore-Booth tenants, 405 Palmerston tenants, and 375 Fitzwilliam tenants, giving a total of 2,362.
Discusses how Canada grew into the West, the Canadian Pacific Railway, the Klondike Gold Rush and the immigrants traveling from across Europe to live in the West.