Malcolm Bull's Calderdale Companion : Foldout

Canada

This Foldout lists some local links with Canada.

Migration to Canada – of farmers and tradesmen – was encouraged from 1772.

In the 1830s, representatives from Toronto came to England to recruit stone masons and market gardeners which were in great demand in Canada. Many local workers emigrated about this time.

The Montréal Immigrant Committee report for 1847 recorded

... the year has been unparalleled for the amount of immigration in Canada: near 100,000 souls have left the British isles for these provinces during this period. Over 5000 of these died on their passage out, 3389 died at Grosse Isle, 3862 at Montréal, and other places in the same fearful proportions. Never has Canada presented such fearful scenes of destitution and suffering. The disease of which the emigrant passengers and in many circumstances the officers and crews of ships, perished at sea, and of which on their arrival in the United States and Canada a great number were ill, was typhus fever in its genuine form. In some ships dysentery, smallpox, and measles swelled the amount of mortality, and added to the number of sick that reached the ports of destination

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Thomas Edward Akroyd Rev Richard Alderson Sir Douglas Alexander Dr William Alexander John Ashwood William Asquith Charles Ernest Bancroft George William Bancroft The Beaver Club Jeremiah Bedford George Bentley Clement Berry Frank Arthur Berry Horace Booth John Spencer Booth William Bottomley William Stanley Braithwaite Edgar Brearley Sam Brighouse Fred Brown Miles Calvert George Arthur Clay Vernon, son of James Clay Henry, son of Stephen Cockburn Francis Edward Collinson Thomas Collinson William Cecil Conway Rev Charles Russell Cranham Rev Henry Only Crofts Charles Albert Crossley Henry Crossley John Crossley John Crossley Luther Herbert Dobson John Albert Drake Durban (Stellawood) Cemetery Alfred Rawnsley Edwards Arnold Edwards Bruce Elliott Harry Ellison Empress Of Ireland James Evison Rev A. C. Fenwick Frederick Fickling Joseph Fielding Mary Fielding Mercy Rachel Fielding Russell George Freeman Frobisher brothers The Frobisher family of Halifax Benjamin Frobisher Joseph Frobisher Thomas Frobisher Frederick Charles Gledhill James William Gledhill Janie Forsythe Grant George Greenwood Lawrence Herbert Greenwood Matthew Henry Greenwood Rev Thomas Greenwood Herbert Guest William Hailstone William Hainsworth Edward Cecil Haley John Hebden Thomas Helliwell William Helliwell Wilmott Hepworth Russell Hincklieff James Maden Hollas Samuel Riley Holmes Emma Jane Houseman

John Howarth Harry Edward Illingworth Frederick Ing Samuel Ingham Harry Percy Jackson James Rev Francis James Wilfred Judson Klondike Gold Rush Rev Charles Knapp James Law Robert Law Rev Thomas Law William Ledgard Edmund Lodge Henry Lodge Leonora Lumb Annie McCandlish Charles McKenna John Whitworth McLintock Jack Mellor John C. Miles Albert Victor Mitchell A. Morris John Morton Arnold Murgatroyd Lewis Naylor The North-West Company Hedley Palmer George Parker George Albert Pickles Rev Michael Pickles Archibald Macallister Poyner John Presswood Edgar Watkin Priestley Thomas Quinsey Joseph Ramsden Christopher Rawson Edward Ripley Lucy Rodd William Rushworth Richard Bates Simpson Stafford Stocks Smith Thomas Hartley Soothill David Squire Joshua Stansfeld Robert Stansfeld William Hosking Stevenson Herbert Sutcliffe Hanson Sykes John Coggin Sykes Robert Leslie Taylor Rev Edwin Teale Joseph Farrar Thornton The Three Greenhorns Henry Hodgson Wadsworth Lawrence Rickard Wager Harold Wright Harwood Walker Tom Dinsdale Webster Rev Bertie Loftus Whitaker Robert Foster Wilkinson Francis Walter de Winton Percy Wressell Elizabeth Ann Yates John Young