| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.3

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Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities: Migration to Upper Canada in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century. By Elizabeth Jane Errington. (Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007. xii, 244 pp. Cloth, $80.00, ISBN 978-0-7735-3265-6. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 978-0-7735-3266-3.)

The history of migration patterns throughout the North Atlantic world is being rewritten, and scholars are paying close attention to emigrants from a wide range of ethnic and national groups. Elizabeth Jane Errington focuses on English, Welsh, Scots, and Irish for the three decades between the end of the Napoleonic Wars and the advent of the famine in the late 1840s. She uses an impressive array of sources to get at the classic questions of what ideas and circumstances led over 2 million people to leave their homes, farms, and occupations, and to risk a sometimes dangerous passage across the Atlantic Ocean for an uncertain future in a foreign land. The author sets her sights on those emigrants who were drawn to Upper Canada, an interior colony in British North America that experienced modest growth in the wake of the War of 1812. Errington's work complements recent scholarship, especially on Irish and Scots emigrants, and provides a useful revision to studies of British emigration that are grounded primarily on the records of formal organizations and government agencies.

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