Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...


keith mercer

Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “keith mercer
Skip side bar filters
  • Rough Justice

    Policing, Crime, and the Origins of the Newfoundland Constabulary, 1729–1871

    by Keith Mercer ...
    Rough Justice is a history of policing and crime in early Newfoundland. It focuses on the period between the appointment of the first constables on the island in 1729 to the establishment of the Newfoundland Constabulary in 1871, now known as the Royal Newfoundland Constabulary. This makes the Constabulary the oldest continuous police service in Canada. This book concentrates on regular constables ... Read more

    $12.39 USD

People who read this also enjoyed

  • Flight from Famine

    The Coming of the Irish to Canada

    by Donald MacKay ...
    One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

    $22.50 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Peter Cashin: My Fight for Newfoundland

    Peter Cashin was at the centre—the stormy centre—of Newfoundland’s political and public life for more than thirty years. Known to many as “the fighting Major,” in a tribute to his wartime service with the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, he played a decisive role at every major stage in the political drama that transformed Newfoundland from a British Dominion to a Canadian Province. Peter Cashin wrote ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • After the Hector

    The Scottish Pioneers of Nova Scotia and Cape Breton, 1773-1852

    This is the first fully documented and detailed account, produced in recent times, of one of the greatest early migrations of Scots to North America. The arrival of the Hector in 1773, with nearly 200 Scottish passengers, sparked a huge influx of Scots to Nova Scotia and Cape Breton. Thousands of Scots, mainly from the Highlands and Islands, streamed into the province during the late 1700s and the ... Read more

    $7.19 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855

    Glengarry and Beyond

    Glengarry, Upper Canada's first major Scottish settlement, was established in 1784 by Highlanders from Inverness-shire. Worsening economic conditions in Scotland, coupled with a growing awareness of Upper Canada’s opportunities, led to a growing tide of emigration that eventually engulfed all of Scotland and gave the province its many Scottish settlements. Pride in their culture gave Scots a ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Seeking a Better Future

    The English Pioneers of Ontario and Quebec

    Series Book 2 - The English in Canada
    The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada.Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • An Unstoppable Force

    The Scottish Exodus to Canada

    This book provides the first exhaustive study of the great Scottish exodus to Canada written in modern times. Using wide-ranging sources, some previously untapped, Lucille Campey examines the driving forces behind the Scottish exodus and traces the remarkable progress of Scottish colonizers across Canada. Mythology and truth are considered side by side as their story unfolds. Scots had a profound ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants

    A Fish and Timber Story

    Series Book 1 - The Irish in Canada
    A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration.In this major study, Lucille Campey traces the relocation of around ninety thousand Irish people to their new homes in Atlantic Canada. She shatters the widespread misconception that the exodus was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland. The Irish immigration saga is not ... Read more

    $13.09 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Imperial Immigrants

    The Scottish Settlers in the Upper Ottawa Valley, 1815–1840

    The impact of the British Empire on the history of the Upper Ottawa Valley is explored through the experiences of early emigration-assisted 19th-century Scottish immigrants.Between 1815 and 1832, Great Britain settled more than 3,500 individuals, mostly from the Scottish Lowlands, in the Ottawa Valley. These government-assisted emigrations, which began immediately after the Napoleonic Wars, are ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Luck of the Irish

    How a shipload of convicts survived the wreck of the Hive to make a new life in Australia

    by Babette Smith ...
    The author of the bestselling Cargo of Women and Australia's Birthstain tracks the lives of Irish convicts who arrived in Australia the mid-1800s, uncovering a long-lasting influence of the Irish convicts on our national character.The luck of the Irish was chronic bad luck, as their sad history attests. That's how it looked for 250 Irish convicts when their ship, the Hive, sank ignominiously off ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • A Very Fine Class of Immigrants

    Prince Edward Island's Scottish Pioneers, 1770-1850

    Scots who opted for pioneer life in Prince Edward Island are the subject of this book. Being the first of the "northern" colonies to be sold off in its entirety to proprietors in the late eighteenth century, P.E.I. acquired its Scots earliest, doing so even before the start of the American War of Independence in 1775. The colonization of Prince Edward Island by Scots takes us back to a period when ... Read more

    $10.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus