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Author Wilson, Catharine Anne, 1958-

Title A new lease on life : landlords, tenants and immigrants in Ireland and Canada / Catharine Anne Wilson
Published MontrØ̧eal, Que. : McGill-Queen's University Press, ©1994

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 315 pages) : illustrations, maps, portraits
Series McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history, 0846-8869 ; 17
McGill-Queen's studies in ethnic history ; 17. 0846-8869
Contents Contents -- Maps -- Tables -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART ONE: LANDLORDS -- 1 Lord Mount Cashell: An Improving and Evangelical Landlord -- 2 His Lordship's Adventure Abroad -- 3 The Famine and His Lordship's Demise -- 4 Major Maxwell's Irish Estates: A New Kind of Management -- 5 Major Maxwell's Estate on Amherst Island -- PART TWO: TENANTS -- 6 The Ards Peninsula -- 7 The Emigrants and Their Settlement on Amherst Island -- 8 What It Meant To Be a Tenant on Amherst Island -- Conclusion
Appendix: Amherst Island Immigrant Families from the ArdsNotes -- A Note on Sources -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y
Summary A New Lease on Life is a study of landlords and tenants whose aspirations, opportunities, and destinies spanned the Atlantic. In this richly detailed history of migration and adaptation in the nineteenth century. Wilson focuses on the landlord-tenant relationship and how it changed in the Irish and North American context. Wilson reconstructs the family circumstances and estate management of two landlords, Stephen Moore, third earl of Mount Cashell, and Major Robert Perceval Maxwell. Each owned several estates in Ireland and consecutively owned the estate of Amherst Island in Ontario. She examines how the management of these estates changed over time and highlights the differences between management in the north and south of Ireland. She considers the form the landlord-tenant relationship took in the New World to determine whether tenancy arrangements in the New World offered landlords an opportunity to start afresh or, instead, were influenced by the traditions and financial circumstances of their Irish estates. The study then follows more than one hundred tenant families who, between 1820 and 1860, migrated from County Down to Amherst Island. Wilson discusses why these families emigrated, and what it meant socially and economically to be a tenant in the New World, where most farmers were freeholders. Wilson sets her study firmly in the framework of British, Irish, and American writing on land tenure and concludes that both landlords and tenants were more successful in the New World. Wealth and land ownership might be slow in materializing, but the opportunity, the choices, and the attainment of security were all greater than they had been in Ireland
Analysis Residences Leasing History
Ontario
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Print version record
Subject Irish -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century
Immigrants -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century
Landlord and tenant -- Ontario -- History -- 19th century
Landlord and tenant -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Land tenure -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century
Land settlement -- Ontario -- Amherst Island -- History -- 19th century
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Real Estate -- General.
HISTORY -- Canada -- General.
Emigration and immigration
Immigrants
Irish
Land settlement
Land tenure
Landlord and tenant
Großgrundbesitz
Pächter
Geschichte 1820-1860.
SUBJECT Down (Northern Ireland) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Amherst Island (Ont.) -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Subject Ireland
Northern Ireland -- Down
Ontario
Ontario -- Amherst Island
Irland
Amherst Island (Ont.)
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780773564282
0773564284
1282856626
9781282856622
9786612856624
6612856629
Other Titles Landlords, tenants and immigrants in Ireland and Canada