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A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration.

Nineteen-year-old Annabelle Worthington was born into a life of privilege, raised amid the glamour of New York society, with glorious homes on Fifth Avenue and in Newport, Rhode Island.

In this story of love and loss, Tibor Schroeder, a Christian and reservist in the Hungarian forces allied with Nazi Germany, and Hedy Weisz, a young Jewish woman meet and fall in love during the Se

The first-ever comprehensive book written on early English immigration to Canada, Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers introduces a series of three titles on The English in Canada.

The days when Aberdeen’s "fast sailing and copper-bottomed" ships carried emigrant Scots to Canada are brought to life in this fascinating account of the northern Scotland exodus during t

This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America.

Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book.

This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times.

Belfast, Prince Edward Island, founded in August 1803, owes its existence to Lord Selkirk.

Glengarry, Upper Canada’s first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire.

This is the first fully documented account, produced in modern times, of the migration of Scots to Lower Canada.

Most emigration from England was voluntary, self-financed, and pursued by people who, while expecting to improve their economic prospects, were also critical of the areas in which they first settle

New Brunswick’s enormous timber trade attracted the first wave of Scots in the late 18th century.

The story of what one daring entrepreneur with dreams and determination can achieve. Frank Hasenfratz grew up in Hungary learning to dodge bullets and avoid land mines during the Second World War.

The story of early English Canadian immigration to Canada is finally told in detail.