Lucille H. Campey - Seeking a Better Future

I AM INDEBTED to a great many people. First, I wish to thank the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the United Kingdom for their grant, which I put toward my research and travel costs.

I am grateful for the many kindnesses of archivists on both sides of the Atlantic. In particular, I wish to thank Jody Robinson at the Eastern Townships Resource Centre in Lennoxville, Mary Bond at Library and Archives Canada in Ottawa, and Marc St-Jacques and Frederic Laniel at Archives Nationales du Qubec. I received much help from a great many English record offices. My special thanks goes to Helen Orme of the Centre for Kent Studies, James Collett-White and Trevor Cunnick at the Bedfordshire Record Office, Steve Hardy and Guenever Pachent at the Suffolk Record Office in Ipswich, Steven Hobbs at the Wiltshire History Centre, Heather Dulson at the Shropshire Archives, David Bowcock and Helen Cunningham at the Cumbria Archive Service, Bruce Jackson at the Lancashire Record Office, Crispin Powell at the Northamptonshire Record Office, and Rebecca Jackson at the Staffordshire Record Office.

I am thankful to the many people who helped me to locate and obtain illustrations. In particular, I especially wish to thank Dominic R. Labb in McMasterville, Quebec, for providing me with some of his splendid photographs of Anglican and Methodist churches in southwestern Quebec and the Eastern Townships. In a similar vein, my thanks go to Marcus Owen, Rectors Warden of St. James Church in Hudson, Quebec, for supplying me with a photograph of that church. I also thank Lisa Coombes of the Plymouth City Museum and Art Gallery, Dr. John Stedman of the Portsmouth Museum and Records Service, Adrian Green, director of the Salisbury and South Wiltshire Museum, Rob Waddington of Lincolnshire Archives, Peter Collings of the Somerset Heritage Centre in Taunton, and Catherine Wakeling, archivist to the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel, for their invaluable help locating sources. I am also indebted to Alan Walker of the Special Collections Department at the Toronto Reference Library and Erin Strouth of Archives of Ontario for dealing with my requests for help.

I am greatly indebted to my editor, Allison Hirst, for her meticulous and thorough checking of the manuscript. I also thank my dear friend Jean Lucas who has proofread the text. Her support and sharp eye for detail have kept me on the straight and narrow, and I am extremely grateful to her.

Finally, my greatest thanks go to my husband, Geoff. He is my rock and guiding light and without him none of my books would have seen the light of day. I am grateful for his love and support and for believing in me. We are, of course, a team. He produces the tables, maps, and appendices, locates the illustrations, helps with the research, and deals with all the technical aspects of the books production. This book is dedicated to him with all my love.

ALSO BY LUCILLE H. CAMPEY

Planters, Paupers, and Pioneers:

English Settlers in Atlantic Canada (2010)

An Unstoppable Force:

The Scottish Exodus to Canada (2008)

With Axe and Bible:

The Scottish Pioneers of New Brunswick, 17841874 (2007)

A Very Fine Class of Immigrants:

Prince Edward Islands Scottish Pioneers, 17701850 (2007)

Les cossais:

The Scottish Pioneers of Lower Canada, 17631855 (2006)

The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 17841855:

Glengarry and Beyond (2005)

After the Hector :

The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 17731852 (2004)

The Silver Chief:

Lord Selkirk and the Scottish Pioneers of

Belfast, Baldoon and Red River (2003)

Fast Sailing and Copper-Bottomed:

Aberdeen Sailing Ships and the Emigrant Scots

They Carried to Canada, 17741855 (2002)

Lucille Campey also has two websites:

www.englishtocanada.com

for her books on English emigration to Canada

www.scotstocanada.com

for her books on Scottish emigration to Canada

Appendix I

Emigrant Ship Crossings from England to Quebec, 181764

Explanatory Notes

Vessel Type

Brig (bg): a two-masted vessel with square rigging on both masts.

Barque (bk): a three-masted vessel, square-rigged on the fore and main masts and for-and-aft rigged on the third aftermost mast.

Ship (s): a three-masted vessel, squared rigged on all three masts.

Schooner (sr): has fore-and-aft sails on two or more masts. They were largely used in the coasting trade and for fishing, their advantage being the smaller crew than that required by square-rigged vessels of a comparable size.