Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities

In the fall of 1831, Mrs McIndoe and her children left Scotland to join her husband, William, a labourer on the Rideau Canal. When they arrived they discovered that William had already moved on, forcing Mrs McIndoe to appeal to the public to help reunite her family.A study of "leaving home" and the experiences of British and Irish migrants as they made their way to Upper Canada.