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The Historical Society
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migration to Trinidad)
Colonial Office
Correspondence
Extracts from the
Port of Spain Gazette
- 1834-1835, "Port of Spain Gazette Newspaper Clippings"
"The Watchful (1834), the Stralhista (1834), the Eweretta (1834), and the Portland (1835)...."
- Friday, May 1, 1846, p.3 , "MADEIRA
IMMIGRATION"
"The last two or three vessels that have arrived in our river with immigrants from the island of Madeira...."
- Tuesday, May 12, 1846, p.3 , "ARRIVAL
OF MADEIRA IMMIGRANTS"
"The Barque Senator arrived here on Saturday last from Madeira...."
- Friday, October 23, 1846, p.2, "MADEIRA
IMMIGRATION"
'We insert the communication signed "EXPERTO CREDE," on the subject
of Madeira Immigration......"
- Tuesday, November 3, 1846, p.3 ,
"BRITISH
GUIANA"
"We have had one or two arrivals of immigrants from Madeira during
the fortnight. Among the vessels.......
- Friday, November 6, 1846, p.3 , "PORTUGUESE
IMMIGRANTS"
"We copy, for the information of our readers, the following notice
issued by the Agent General of Immigrants....."
- Tuesday, November 10, 1846, p.3,
"THE
PORTUGUESE VERSION"
"We gave last week the English version of the Kalley affair at Madeira;
the following is a Portuguese account of the matter...."
- Friday, November 13, 1846, p.3, "IMMIGRATION
FROM MADEIRA"
"Within the short space of a week we have had two arrivals of Madeira
Immigrants...."
- Friday, November 13, 1846, p.3, Extract
from the article "IMMIGRATION
OF FREE LABOURERS"
"A free and constant stream of immigration is required...."
- Tuesday, July 20, 1847, p. 3. "ST.
VINCENT"
"There has been considerable commotion among the planters to stop
the ruinous consequences of taking away their Portuguese laborers...."
- Tuesday, November 9, 1847, p. 2/3.
"IMMIGRANTS"
"The Barque Dalhousie, Captain Wilkie, thirty-five days from Madeira...."
- "SHIP
NEWS", Various Dates, 1846-1847
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CALVINADAGE
- The PoWI Newsletter
Articles by Jo-Anne
Ferreira
- "Madeiran Portuguese Migration to Guyana, St. Vincent, Antigua and Trinidad:
A Comparative Overview",
in Portuguese Studies Review 14:2 (2006): 63-85
- "Some
Aspects of Portuguese Immigration into Trinidad and Tobago:
An Investigation Based on Oral History",
in OPReP Newsletter 8 (December 1989): 3-5
- "The
Portuguese of Trinidad",
in The Book of Trinidad, edited by Gérard Besson and
Bridget Brereton, 263-269. Port-of-Spain: Paria Publishing Co. Ltd.,
1991.
- "The
Portuguese Cultural Contribution to Trinidad & Tobago",
in OPreP Newsletter, 2002.
- "Do
Atlântico às Antilhas: O Caso da Trinidad",
in Islenha 19 (June to December 1996): 95-107
- "A
Trinidadiana in Portugal",
Newsday, and also Sunday Guardian (25th Anniversary European
Union supplement), 21 June, 2001
Articles
by Anthony Milne
Other
Articles
- Ser português na Trinidad: Etnicidade, subjectividade e poder, by Miguel Vale de Almeida (Etnográfica 1.1 (1997):9-31).
- A
By-Path of Presbyterian Missions in the West Indies, by Rev. Gilbert
Earle, The Trinidad Presbyterian, June 1923, Reprinted from
"East and West", Canada
- O'Byrne,
Michael. Archdiocese
of Port of Spain. Catholic Encyclopedia Vol XII (transcribed by
Douglas J.Potter), 1999.
- Five
Years in the West Indies, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol.
71 (440) June 1852
- Historical
Settings of Trinidad and Tobago, by Pantrinbago.com
- History
of the Jews of the Caribbean, by Ralph G. Bennett
- Immigration
to Jamaica, Trinidad and Guyana After Emancipation, by Alden Maddocks
- Our
West Indian Colonies, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine Vol. 63 (440)
June 1848
- 'Pilgrims'
Madeirenses na Expansão da Fronteira Norte-Americana:Proselitismo
de Robert Reid Kalley, 1838-c.1850, por Maria Zina Gonçalves de
Abreu (Universidade da Madeira) (comunicação apresentada ao primeiro
Congresso Internacional de Estudos Anglo-Portugueses, 6-8 Maio 2001,
Lisboa) *[NOTE: This paper is in Portuguese, and the link leads you
to a Word file. For an abstract in English, click here.
The title of the paper in English is "Pioneers of North-America Frontier
Expansion: Case Study of the Role of the Protestant Faith in Prompting
Immigration from Madeira to America," by Maria Zina Gonçalves de Abreu
(Universidade da Madeira) (paper presented at the first International
Conference for Anglo-Portuguese Studies, 6-8 May 2001, Lisbon.)]
- The
Portuguese in Trinidad, Newsday Historical Digest, June 24, 2001,
page 29
- Race
and Color in Trinidad & Tobago, by Nakeba Stewart
- Small
TT/Portuguese Community Continues to Celebrate Heritage, by Angela
Pidduck
- Trinidad,
from the Canada
Heirloom Series, Volume
VII - Canada at the Millenium, A Transcultural Society. Published
as part of Canada's
Digital Collections.
- Trinidad
and Tobago,
by IMDiversity.com
- The
Last of the Jews in T&T, by Tim McDonald
- Contribution of Jews to Jamaica (Review of Arbell's Portuguese Jews of Jamaica)
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