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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 18: Australia and Canada; Assisted Passage Scheme for Female Household Workers, Canada's Welcome to Women |
Date | 1912 |
Document Type | Pamphlet; Correspondence; Newspaper |
Publisher Information | Canadian National Railways, London |
Reference | RCMS 31/2/105-134, Box 5, Volume 2, Folder 5 |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
Description | Documents refer to the emigration of British women and young girls to New Zealand, Australia, and Canada. Reasons that deter women from emigrating, the need for female settlers in such dominions, and government schemes for increasing female emigrations are the central topics discussed. |
Biographical Note / History | In 1911 Thomas Edward Sedgwick organised for a group of 50 boys to be sent from England to New Zealand on board the S.S. Authentic before the outbreak of the First World War. They were sent as part of an experiment to ascertain whether young British boys might help alleviate a shortage of farm labourers in New Zealand and offer a solution to the declining levels of employment opportunities in the crowded British cities. They were trained in all aspects of farming life, and the wages they earnt were paid to the Labour Department while the boys were awarded weekly pocket money. |
Theme(s) | Responses to Immigration; Motives for Emigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance |
Country (from) | Great Britain |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia; Canada; Mexico; South Africa |
Places | Winnipeg, Manitoba, Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Saskatchewan, Ontario, Quebec, Canada; New South Wales, Western Australia, South Australia, Victoria, Queensland, Tasmania, Australia |
Ports | London, England; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada |
Nationality | English; European |
Ships | SS Lake Champlain; Royal George; Royal Edward; Canada |
People | Short, Adam; Hamilton, Cecily; Sedgwick, Thomas Edward; Durham, Mabel |
Keywords | emigration scheme, shipping, employment, government, colony conditions, politics, unemployment, economics, push factor, poverty, poor laws, assisted passage, emigrant, birth, women, education, social class, eligibility, lodging house, servant, domestic service, female emigration, population, artisan, marriage, orphan, Young Men's Christian Association, advice literature, passage, religion, Catholicism, suffrage, application, farming, unmarried, cookery, railways, Canadian National Railways, agricultural, living conditions, climate, leisure |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |