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Chapter 1: Crossing the Atlantic

...Agricultural prospects in England were every month growing worse…

In the nineteenth century, many British families were looking to the colonies for opportunity and adventure. The Averill family is one of many who chose to come to Canada, attracted by the availability of land and the promise of land ownership. In Emma's first chapter, she explains their reasons for leaving home and family and then describes their sea voyage across the Atlantic Ocean on the S.S. Sardinian.

Chapter 1 of Emma Averill's journal
A of M, Emma Averill fonds, P267 | Read original | Read transcript

Fruitful Manitoba immigration pamphlet
Manitoba Legislative Library,
RBC, JV-60 Im6, Box 5.
To encourage immigration, the Department of Agriculture and Immigration (1890-1959) published and circulated literature on agriculture, farming, and other interests in Manitoba through its Publications Branch. This branch published "Fruitful Manitoba" in 1892.

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