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Voyages of hope : the saga of the bride-ships

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  • Publisher:
    Touchwood Editions, 2011
    Note: This book was purchased with support from the Government of Canada's Social Development Partnerships Program - Disability Component.

Details:

  • Author: Johnson, Peter
    Date:
    Created
    2011
    Summary:

    A line of nervous young women got off a ship in Victoria Harbour in 1862 and had to walk the gauntlet between two rows of jostling, eager men. One girl, proposed to on the spot, accepted equally quickly and left town with her new husband. Why did these women leave everything behind in England and come to the west coast? The answers lie in the lusty turmoil of a gold-rush frontier, the horrible disruptions of industrial England and the conflicting aims of earnest Christians and early British feminists.

    Subject(s): Canada | Women immigrants | British Columbia | British | Emigration and immigration
    Original Publisher: [S.l.], Touchwood Editions
    Language(s): English