The Case of 'Canadian Homes'

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
The Case of 'Canadian Homes'
Abstract
The author describes the background of the novel "Canadian Homes; or The Mystery Solved", written by British immigrant Ebenezer Clemo (c. 1830-c. 1860) under the pseudonym Maple Knot and published in 1858 by Montreal printer and publisher John Lovell (1810-1893), Clemo's employer. The novel tells the story of a group of poor Londoners who immigrate to Canada only to find that, because of the lack of a protective tariff to encourage Canadian manufacturing, there were no jobs. The author describes the book as a thesis novel, part of a campaign mounted by Lovell and others for the adoption of a protective tariff to help wrest Canada from its "great commercial distress" by "the establishment and encouragement of her home manufactures."
Publication
Canadian Literature/Littérature canadienne
Volume
No. 81
Pages
147-154
Date
Summer 1979
Language
en
Citation
Edwards, Mary Jane. “The Case of ‘Canadian Homes.’” Canadian Literature/Littérature canadienne No. 81 (Summer 1979): 147–154.
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