The Lanark Society Settlers 1820-1821 - Ontario - Canada - Genealogy - Scottish

Description

This book was written by Carol Bennett and published by Juniper books in 1991.  This soft cover is 11” high by 8-½” wide, it has 232 pages, it is illustrated, has a bibliography and an index.
This book is in VG condition, a piece has been cut from the top corner of the title page, probably to remove a name, otherwise it is a nice, clean copy.
From the Back Cover:  “In 1820 and 1821 a group of several thousand Scottish people moved into the New Lanark Settlement in Ontario, under the auspices of the British government.  Many of them were unemployed weavers who had suffered hardship as a result of Britain’s faltering economy following the end of the Napoleonic War.  These people were given land in the townships of Dalhousie, Lanark, North Sherbrooke and Ramsay.  They came to Upper Canada as members of more than forty emigration societies.
“In this book, author Carol Bennett outlines the conditions which existed in Scotland at that time, the way in which this group emigration was handled and what the people found when they arrived in this country.
“The individual families have been listed, along with all available information about trhe ships they traveled on, place of origin, location in Lanark County and names of family members.  While such information is not available for all families this book will still provide a valuable background to the emigration scheme for those people interested in search out their roots.
“Also included are lists of some English and Irish people who arrived in the Lanark Settlement at the same time as the Society Settlers.
“This book, which is intended as a handbook for the genealogist, is a companion volume to Peter Robinson’s Settlers, by the same author.”