Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930

207 Pages·2020·2.388 MB·English

by  Karly Kehoe, Michael Vance

Histor ies of the Scottish Atlantic
Reappraisals of British
Colonisation in Atlantic
Canada, 1700-1930
Edited by S. Karly Kehoe
and Michael E. Vance
Reappraisals of British Colonisation in
Atlantic Canada, 1700–1930
Histories of the Scottish Atlantic
Series editors: S. Karly Kehoe and Chris Dalglish
Critical histories of Scotland’s transatlantic connections and their influence
on the development of communities and landscapes, past and present
This series showcases new research into the history of Scotland’s relationship with the
Atlantic World and promotes understanding of the present-day legacies of this past. An
important, though not exclusive, focus is the Scottish Highlands and those areas of the
Caribbean and North America (Canada and the United States) with which Highland
Scots had a significant relationship. The series explores the ways in which the lives of
people from one place intersected with and impacted upon the lives of people from
other places. It analyses how interactions between diverse Atlantic communities influ-
enced the development of particular landscapes and regions, both in Scotland and on
the other side of the ocean. It interrogates the ways in which these past interactions and
developments continue to resonate with people today, as an aspect of their identity and
a factor influencing their lives and life chances. And it reveals and explores the legacies
of a complex past and advances understanding of how this at once positive and negative
heritage might be harnessed for the future development of communities on both sides
of the Atlantic.
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Reappraisals of British
Colonisation in Atlantic
Canada, 1700–1930
Edited by
S. KARLY KEHOE AND MICHAEL E. VANCE
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Contents
Notes on the Contributors vii
Map of the Caribbean ix
Map of the USA x
Map of Atlantic Canada xi
INTRODUCTION
1 Colonial Legacies 3
S. Karly Kehoe and Michael E. Vance
2 British Colonisation in an Atlantic Canadian Context 11
John G. Reid
PART ONE Dispossession and Settlement
3 Barren Icy Rocks or a Nursery of Seamen? Debating Nova Scotia
and Ideologies of Empire in the Era of the American Revolution 25
Alexandra L. Montgomery
4 Leaving Nova Scotia: Sierra Leone and the Free Black People,
1792–1800 41
Ruma Chopra
5 New World, Old Problems? Aristocratic Influences on Colonial
Governance and Land in Nineteenth-century Atlantic Canada 59
Annie Tindley
vi CONTENTS
PART TWO Religion and Identity
6 Catholic Highland Scots and the Colonisation of Prince Edward
Island and Cape Breton Island, 1772–1830 77
S. Karly Kehoe
7 The Church of England, Print Networks and the Book of Common
Prayer in the North-Eastern Atlantic Colonies, c.1750–c.1830 93
Joseph Hardwick
8 ‘For Christ and Covenant’: Scottish Presbyterian Dissent and Early
Political Reform in Nova Scotia, 1803–1832 113
Holly Ritchie
PART THREE Reappraising Memory
9 Fenian Ghosts: The Spectre of Irish Republicanism in Ethnic
Relations in Newfoundland 133
Willeen G. Keough
10 Cosmopolitan Engagements: Class, Place and Diplomacy in the
Gulf of St Lawrence Fisheries, 1815–1854 154
Kurt Korneski
11 The Mi’kmaq, the Pattersons and Remembering the Scottish
Colonisation of Nova Scotia 171
Michael E. Vance
Index 190
Notes on the Contributors
Ruma Chopra is professor of history at San Jose State University in California.
She has written on Atlantic slavery and war and society in the American
Revolution. She is currently working on a project concerning environment and
race in the early modern era.
Joseph Hardwick is senior lecturer in British history at the University of
Northumbria in Newcastle. He specialises in the political, religious and envi-
ronmental histories of British settler societies in Australia, southern Africa and
Canada from the late eighteenth century.
S. Karly Kehoe is the Canada Research Chair in Atlantic Canada Communities
at Saint Mary’s University in Nova Scotia. She specialises in religion, migration
and minority identities in the British Atlantic world.
Willeen G. Keough is professor of history at Simon Fraser University in
British Columbia. One of her major research interests is the Irish diaspora in
Newfoundland fishing communities, with special attention to gender, ethnicity,
class and communal memory.
Kurt Korneski is associate professor of history at Memorial University of
Newfoundland. His research focuses on the history of capitalism, colonialism,
development policy and environmental history, particularly as they relate to
diplomacy and the social history of fishers, the fishing industry and fishing
communities in north-eastern North America.
Alexandra L. Montgomery is a PhD candidate at the University of Pennsylvania.
She is interested in migration, empires and colonisation in seventeenth- and
eighteenth-century north-eastern North America.
viii NOTES ON THE CONTRIBUTORS
John G. Reid is professor emeritus of history and senior fellow of the Gorsebrook
Research Institute for Atlantic Canada Studies at Saint Mary’s University in
Nova Scotia. His work has focused primarily on north-eastern North America
in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, especially imperial–Indigenous
relations, although he has also recently turned his attention to sport history.
Holly Ritchie completed her MA in history at Saint Mary’s University in Nova
Scotia. She currently assists with estate papers at the North Lanarkshire Archives
in Motherwell, Scotland.
Annie Tindley is senior lecturer in modern British history at Newcastle
University. She specialises in rural history, land management and reform, and
aristocratic elites in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Michael E. Vance is professor of history at Saint Mary’s University in Nova
Scotia. His research focuses on nineteenth-century Scottish emigration and
settlement as well as the nature of Scottish overseas identity.
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