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| title | Thomas Halliday, Mary Cochrane, The Earl of Selkirk, and the Island |  |
| creator | Bumsted, J.M. |  |
| subject | Island Magazine |  |
| subject | Prince Edward Island Museum |  |
| description | While most early immigration to
Prince Edward Island involved
groups of new arrivals, over the years
the Island was also the destination of a
number of individuals and individual
families, mainly from Scotland. Although
the bulk of the newcomers
sought to farm, many were skilled
tradesmen and artisans, impelled to
depart their homeland by economic
difficulties and the lure of landowning.
One such immigrant was Thomas Halliday,
a stonemason from Edinburgh.
Unlike the vast majority of his fellow
immigrants, Halliday has left us an
account of his experiences, preserved
in his own inimitable language in the
Selkirk Papers at the Public Archives
of Canada. |  |
| publisher | Prince Edward Island Museum |  |
| date | 1986 |  |
| type | Document |  |
| format | application/pdf |  |
| identifier | vre:islemag-batch2-252 |  |
| source | 19 |  |
| language | en_US |  |
| rights | Please note that this material is being presented for the sole purpose of research and private study. Any other use requires the permission of the copyright holder(s), and questions regarding copyright are the responsibility of the user. |  |