The lecture looks at five emigration schemes that brought British subjects to try their fate and fortunes in settling the new country of Canada. Some schemes were short term and others schemes paved the way for family to join the original settlers. The Selkirk Settlement, The Petworth Emigrants, Home Children, Homesteading in Western Canada, and the Peter Robinson Settlers.
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About the Speaker
Melissa J Ellis
Melissa J. Ellis (Toronto) problem-solves by looking “outside of the box”. She is a past president of the Friends of the Archives of Ontario and graduate of the University of Strathclyde’s Post Graduate Certificate in Genealogical Studies. Melissa is the CEO and the forensic genealogist of Archive Search a firm that specializes in researching the past to find the living.
