Prominent Families of New York
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
ISBN :
Author : Lyman Horace Weeks
Publisher :
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 18,37 MB
Release : 1898
Category : New York (N.Y.)
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Author : Edward Rodolphus Lambert
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,57 MB
Release : 1838
Category : Branford (Conn. : Town)
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Author : Marjorie Kohli
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 482 pages
File Size : 31,44 MB
Release : 2003-10-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1554883253
"To thousands of young people, emigration has been the golden bridge by which they have passed from an apparently hopeless childhood to lives of useful service and assured comfort, in this new land." - Mr. G. Bogue Smart, Inspector of British Immigrant Children and Receiving Homes, 1915 Many thousands of Canadians are descended from young immigrants transported to Canada from 1833 to 1939. Author Marjorie Kohli has meticulously documented the incredible story of the removal of thousands of "waifs and strays" and young men and women, primarily from the UK and Ireland. They braved the perilous voyage to an unknown future in Canada, ultimately being placed throughout the Maritimes, Ontario, Quebec and westward as far as British Columbia. The most comprehensive resource of its kind, The Golden Bridge promises to be an indispensable tool for family researchers with a "home child" ancestor, and of interest to those unfamiliar with this aspect of Canadian history. This extensively researched book incorporates background detail on agencies and key organizers such as Maria Rye, Annie Macpherson, Thomas Barnardo and William Quarrier, along with lesser knowns including Ellinor Close and Charles Young. Marjorie Kohli is well known for her years of active involvement with juvenile and child migration issues. Supported by charts, passenger lists and archival visuals, The Golden Bridge is a must-read for genealogists and history buffs alike.
Author : Marianne Novy
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 27,26 MB
Release : 2011-05-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0472024949
Imagining Adoption looks at representations of adoption in an array of literary genres by diverse authors including George Eliot, Edward Albee, and Barbara Kingsolver as well as ordinary adoptive mothers and adoptee activists, exploring what these writings share and what they debate. Marianne Novy is Professor of English and Women's Studies, University of Pittsburgh.
Author : Zane Grey
Publisher :
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 26,65 MB
Release : 2020-10-27
Category :
ISBN :
The Desert of Wheat is a thrilling and romantic tale of sabotage in the wheat fields of the Pacific Northwest during World War I. A passionate novel of patriotic and anti-union propaganda, it portrays the anxieties of the young country threatened by a foreign war after the closing of the frontier. Grey captures the heart of a nation at the brink of a century of change.
Author : Alistair MacLeod
Publisher : Emblem Editions
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 38,41 MB
Release : 2012-01-11
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1551995476
Alexander MacDonald guides us through his family’s mythic past as he recollects the heroic stories of his people: loggers, miners, drinkers, adventurers; men forever in exile, forever linked to their clan. There is the legendary patriarch who left the Scottish Highlands in 1779 and resettled in “the land of trees,” where his descendents became a separate Nova Scotia clan. There is the team of brothers and cousins, expert miners in demand around the world for their dangerous skills. And there is Alexander and his twin sister, who have left Cape Breton and prospered, yet are haunted by the past. Elegiac, hypnotic, by turns joyful and sad, No Great Mischief is a spellbinding story of family, loyalty, exile, and of the blood ties that bind us, generations later, to the land from which our ancestors came.
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Publisher : North Vancouver, B.C. : Whitecap Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 18,95 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781552854587
Five Roses: A Guide to Good Cooking is published by Whitecap Books.
Author : David S Bovée
Publisher : CUA Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 27,58 MB
Release : 2010
Category : History
ISBN : 0813217202
*A history of the American Catholic Churchs policy toward rural issues in the past century*
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Publisher :
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 1840
Category : English literature
ISBN :
Author : Joseph A. Amato
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2002-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0520232933
"Rethinking Home is pioneering scholarship at its best. Amato makes his case for a new local history combining academic sophistication with a deft human touch, that can provide a new perspective on the way in which humans have interacted with their natural and created environments over the past 150 years. Amato’s eloquent plea for scholars to rethink the intricate relationships between home, place, nation, and world is one that cannot be ignored."—Richard O. Davies, University Foundation Professor, University of Nevada "Local history is the stepchild of our profession. Joseph Amato has emancipated Cinderella. Innovative and engaging, his passion for particulars brings life to people and places whose interest we have underrated far too long; and provides a good read beside."—Eugen Weber Department of History, UCLA "In the best Thoreauvian sense, Joseph Amato masterfully synthesizes and eloquently presents two decades of practicing and thinking deeply about local history. How pleasantly odd, how wonderful that a book on local history should be so rousing, so encouraging, so redemptive! Rethinking Home is a veritable call to arms for those of us who care deeply about the special, the distinctive character of our own home places, our own locales."—Bradley P. Dean, Thoreau Institute at Walden Woods