Identity area
Reference code
P/P155/57/4
Title
Letters from government-assisted emigrants to Upper Canada
Date(s)
- 1823-1825 (Creation)
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Series
Extent and medium
67pp
Context area
Archival history
Kerby A. Miller created his transcripts of the Michael Cronin and Catharine O'Brien letters from copies held on microfilm in the Correspondence series, Sir Robert Wilmot Horton fonds, Library and Archives Canada [reference number MG24-A55]. The remainder of the transcripts in this series were created from original manuscripts held in the Peter Robinson Papers, Trinity College Dublin Library [call number MS 6391/4].
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Content and structure area
Scope and content
- Abstracts of correspondence, including internal memoranda sent by Peter Robinson to Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton, British colonial administrator most known for his writing on government-assisted emigration to British colonies, and questions addressed to Irish settlers in Upper Canada in 1823 and 1825 and their answers. These abstracts were sourced by Kerby A. Miller from official British documents relating to government assisted emigration from Ireland held in the Sir Robert Wilmot-Horton Papers, Library and Archives Canada. Included are reproductions of two letters written by emigrants Michael Cronin and Catharine O'Brien.
- Numerical data on assisted Irish emigrants in 1823 and 1825 compiled from said papers.
- Miller’s transcripts of nine letters written 1823-1825 from assisted emigrants to Upper Canada found in the Peter Robinson Papers, Trinity College Dublin Library.