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Field name | Value |
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Title | Sedgwick Migration Scrapbook 22: Boy Migration; Canada, Australia and New Zealand |
Date | Jun 1912 - Sep 1913 |
Document Type | Newspaper; Correspondence |
Reference | RCMS 31/2/225-253, Box 6, Volume 2, Folder 9 |
Library / Archive | Cambridge University Library |
Collection Name | Thomas E. Sedgwick's Migration Scrapbooks, 1910-1914 |
Description | Items principally refer to the emigration of young British boys and girls to Canada as a means of escaping the unemployment crisis in Britain. There are also letters and newspaper articles referring to reports of the success of emigration schemes sending British boys to Australia and New Zealand to work as farm labourers, and the call for more groups to be sent to meet the labour demands there. Regulation and the cease of Hindu immigration into Canada is also reported on in various newspaper articles. |
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) | Motives for Emigration; Politics, Legislation and Governance; Responses to Immigration |
Country (from) | Great Britain; China; Japan |
Country (to) | New Zealand; Australia; Canada |
Places | Vancouver, British Columbia, Toronto, Ontario, Canada; India; Victoria, Australia |
Ports | London, England |
Nationality | English; European; Japanese; Chinese, Asian |
People | Sedgwick, Thomas Edward; McConnell, H A; Legge, J G; William, Roland |
Keywords | Canadian Pacific Railway, railway, emigration scheme, shipping, agriculture, farming, labour, employment, government, disease, health and sickness, farm school, colony conditions, apprenticeship, colony, colonisation, settlement, application, finance, push factor, unemployment, Canadian National Railways, food, journey conditions, tobacco, Christianity, welfare |
Language | English |
Copyright | Cambridge University Library |