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A new lease on life : landlords, tenants, and immigrants in Ireland and Canada /

A New Lease on Life is a study of landlords and tenants whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Wilson focuses on the landlord-tenant relationship and how it changed in the Irish and...

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Main Author: Wilson, Catharine Anne, 1958-
Language:English
Published: Montréal ; Buffalo : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994.
Series:McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 17.
Subjects and Genres:
1800-1899
Landlord and tenant > Ontario > History > 19th century.
Landlord and tenant > Ireland > History > 19th century.
Land settlement > Ontario > Amherst Island > History > 19th century.
Irish > Ontario > Amherst Island > History > 19th century.
Immigrants > Ontario > Amherst Island > History > 19th century.
Land tenure > Ontario > Amherst Island > History > 19th century.
Irlandais > Ontario > Amherst Island > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Immigrants > Ontario > Amherst Island > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Locateurs et locataires > Ontario > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Locateurs et locataires > Irlande > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Propriété foncière > Ontario > Amherst Island > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Colonisation intérieure > Ontario > Amherst Island > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Emigration and immigration.
Immigrants.
Irish.
Land settlement.
Land tenure.
Landlord and tenant.
Landlord and tenant > Ontario.
Landlord and tenant > Ireland.
Großgrundbesitz
Pächter.
Geschichte 1820-1860.
Down (Northern Ireland : County) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Amherst Island (Ont.) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Down (Northern Ireland) > Emigration and immigration > History > 19th century.
Down (Irlande du Nord) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Amherst Island (Ont.) > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Ireland.
Northern Ireland > Down (County)
Ontario.
Ontario > Amherst Island.
Canada, Ontario, Lennox and Addington, Loyalist Township > Emigration and immigration.
Ireland, Down > Emigration and immigration.
Canada, Ontario, Lennox and Addington, Loyalist Township > Land and property.
Canada, Ontario, Lennox and Addington, Loyalist Township > History.
Ireland > Land and property.
Irland
Amherst Island (Ont.)
Residences > Leasing > History
Ontario
History.
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Table of Contents:
  • Pt. 1.
  • Landlords
  • 1.
  • Lord Mount Cashell: An Improving and Evangelical Landlord
  • 2.
  • His Lordship's Adventure Abroad
  • 3.
  • Famine and His Lordship's Demise
  • 4.
  • Major Maxwell's Irish Estates: A New Kind of Management
  • 5.
  • Major Maxwell's Estate on Amherst Island
  • Pt. 2.
  • Tenants
  • 6.
  • Ards Peninsula
  • 7.
  • Emigrants and Their Settlement on Amherst Island
  • 8.
  • What It Meant To Be a Tenant on Amherst Island.
  • Appendix: Amherst Island Immigrant Families from the Ards.

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