Name/Title
A Narrative of the Rise & Progress of EmigrationEntry/Object ID
RS28: Perth HistoryDescription
RS28 - Resource Book 28
Soft cover - yellow with black script - 112 pages.
This provides an overview of the conditions that resulted in some 2900 Scots voluntarily emigrating during 1820 and 1821 to Perth or Johnstown District of Upper Canada. In short, the distressful years 1816-1820 culminated in the formation of various Emigration Societies in and about Glasgow during the spring of 1820 for the purpose of petitioning for government assistance towards emigration and for soliciting public subscriptions in support of the same.