The earliest efforts were tied to the correspondence and enclosures that were sent from Canada for the Colonial Office. Eventually the PAC pursued an impressive microfilming program that remains valuable.
The latest approach is to digitize documents from microfilm. Even in , with the founding of the Public Archives, the importance of British records being used to understand our history was understood.
The first major archival collections were the military records kept in Canada by the British military who were withdrawing from Canada in recognition that the young country had ambitions to be independent. The key British records for Adams, and still for us, were tied to emigration. However, there were also significant records tied to trade and commerce in FO 5.
During the s to the s, the early years of Irish emigration, several parliamentary inquiries were made, and these were published and also available in London.
Adams realized that contemporary pamphlets were useful, especially if one could separate rhetoric from reality. Works specifically on Irish emigration tended to be coloured by the Irish Famine years between and and left readers imagining that Irish emigration began with the Famine. However, the earliest Irish emigrations to our part of Canada happened in the s, a quarter century before the Famine.
It is easier to study the Irish emigration in local archives, aided by the microfilm projects of the s and s. The Trent Valley Archives has several of the PRO microfilms, and those we have are accessible by digitized transcriptions. However, the truth is that new archival sources continued to find their ways to archives with public access and some of these archives are spread beyond London.
For example, the private papers of Sir Robert Wilmot Horton, the main advocate of British government support for Irish emigration, and the man who hired Peter Robinson to oversee two emigration and settlement projects in and , are in the Derbyshire Record Office in Matlock, midway between Nottingham and Manchester.
The Trent Valley Archives has one of the rare copies of the Casey Blackwater project that contains a copy of most of the significant early publications related to Irish history and genealogy.
Adams's approach to Irish emigration was well-conceived and his history book remains interesting and essential reading nearly nine decades later. It was also Howard Pammett's most reliable secondary source when he wrote his MA thesis on the Peter Robinson settlers a year later, and also a classic despite its shortcomings.
Adams's history begins in , only eight years before the Irish emigration to Lanark county, and 10 years before the emigration to Peterborough and area. The peace treaty of , the Congress of Vienna, marked the end of years of war between England and France, with sometimes other players, and with occasional ceasefires in order to build up resources and recruit and train fresh sailors and soldiers.
It was not easy for governments to provide economic statistics in , but even with unsatisfactory resources certain features were clear. In Ireland, the rents were high by Irish standards, and the difficulty of meeting rents brought stress to the Irish. Story continues below. In a single night on August 11 th , , the blaze took down nearly everything in the block north of Simcoe, south of Hunter between Water and George Streets. Peterborough built a locomotive infrastructure in the mid s and had a daily train service to Toronto until the s.
Although the city was a hub of railway activity from the s to the s, the city slowly decreased the use of its tracks. Peterborough is no longer home to a functioning railway station, with the former Canadian Pacific Railway Station having been restored to house the local Chamber of Commerce. Opened on July 9, , the lift lock was designed to carry boats up Peterborough is a vibrant cultural centre, which bred several successful writers, book publishers, a symphony orchestra, a theatre guild, the 4th Line Theatre and other creative organizations, public and private art galleries, along with several heritage and historical organizations including the Hutchison House Museum and the Peterborough Centennial Museum and Archives.
Peterborough is also home to the Canadian Canoe Museum. Crime PM. In an infirmary was built in the town and in Peterborough gained gas street lighting. In a corn exchange where grain could be bought and sold was built. St Peters Training College was built in New industries appeared in Peterborough in the 19th century.
An iron foundry opened in In the late 19th century there was an elastic webbing industry. Another important industry was brick making. On the other hand, the old industry of clay pipe making died out by the end of the century.
The railway reached Peterborough in The railway led to a rapid increase in the population of the town. Then in Peterborough was given a corporation. They set about creating a piped water supply and laying down sewers. By both were complete. The first public library in Peterborough opened in By the population of Peterborough stood at around 30, During the 20th century conditions in Peterborough improved.
In it gained an electricity supply. Feoffee almshouses were built in Cumbergate in and between and electric trams ran through the streets of Peterborough. The first cinema in Peterborough opened in In the s the first council houses were built in Peterborough. In a War Memorial Hospital was built in Peterborough. The City Museum opened in and a new Town Hall was built in A new bridge over the Nene was built in A public swimming pool opened in The fate of Peterborough was changed forever in when it was decided to make it a new town.
At that time it had a population of about 80, It was decided to double this to about , In a Development Corporation was formed. Building began in at Peterborough grew rapidly in the s and s as new suburban areas were built at Bretton and Orton. At the present time, a fourth area is being built at Hampton south of the city. The Key Theatre was built in Three new shopping centres opened in Peterborough in the late 20th century.
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