E.G. Wakefield and the Beauharnois Canal
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| Title |
E.G. Wakefield and the Beauharnois Canal
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| Abstract |
A account of the 1839 sale of the seigneury of Beauharnois to the North American Colonization Association of Ireland, a British joint stock land company, and relations between Edward Ellice (1783-1863), the British absentee Seigneur of Beauharnois, and Edward Gibbon Wakefield (1796-1862), a British colonization theorist and agent for the land company. Wakefield sought to develop the land company's investment by lobbying to place the seigneury on the route of one of the canals needed to improve the navigation of the St Lawrence River. The twenty-four kilometer Beauharnois Canal, which linked Lake St. Louis with Lake St. Francis on the south side of the St. Lawrence River, opened in 1843. The author also includes an account of English-French relations following the Rebellion of 1837 in Lower Canada.
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The Canadian Historical Review
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Vol. 48
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no. 1
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1-25
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March 1967
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| Language |
en
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| Citation |
Manning, Helen Taft. “E.G. Wakefield and the Beauharnois Canal.” The Canadian Historical Review Vol. 48, no. 1 (March 1967): 1–25.
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