Historical+Voices

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===We are conducting research on the documented lives of people who lived in Canada, the United States and England during the period of Confederation. Post resources identifying individuals who may be able to help us tell the story of Canadian Confederation.===

Raiya: Lydia Huntley Sigourney wrote the poem “[|The Western Emigrant]” referring to her thoughts on Britain colonizing Canada, which at the time belonged to the natives. She also wrote many other poems throughout the 19th century, which was right around the time of the Confederation.

Jen S: [|Amelia Harris tells of her farm being destroyed by soldiers]

Andrew: **John Russell** A British politician who was involved in writing the bill for re-uniting Upper and Lower Canada and thought that it shouldn't pass because he didn't think that Canada was ready for "responsible government" and hadn't proven themselves to not be just violent rebels. His correspondence with Britain @http://www.canadiana.org/view/9_01501/0018

Sepehr: [] A Canadian educator from around 1850, born in 1803.

Alvin: The Diary of Anne Prevost http://www.galafilm.com/1812/e/people/anneprevost.html

Iris: [|Account of Her Trek Through the Woods]... by the lovely Laura Secord A letter of her adopted country, Canada, to her brother, by [|Catharine Parr Strickland]. http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/moodie-traill/027013-119.01-e.php?rec_id_nbr=41&anchor=027013-2200-e.html

Zoe: http://clarke.cmich.edu/resource_tab/information_and_exhibits/i_arrived_at_detroit/lydia_bacon.html Entries from the journal of Lydia B. Bacon, written during the war of 1812.

Nicholas:

[|Excerpts from a journal from a settler's 3 month voyage to Canada] a page from an 1800s era newspaper discussing [|farmer techniques] from [|The Bee], not a journal of any one person but still (I think) representative of life during that era unrealated but still a primary source, discussing the [|creation of Upper Canada's municipal government]. (finally fitting the actual criteria) the [|diaries of George Hallen] for lots of other imagration stories [|click here]

Leanne:The life and journals of Anne Prevost: [], []

Veronica: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catharine_Beecher An Essay on Slavery and Abolitionism, Catharine Beecher,1837 [|Read Here]

Derek: **Diary of Lieutenant John Lang- War from the Saddle** Diary from 1812-1814 information and insight by John Lang [|Lieutenant John Lang] **Thomas H. Warner 1780-1828** Letters from him to his family that have been preserved. [|Thomas H. Warner]

Richard:

Blache Bruce

1st African American United States, Senator, A former Slave(And the only one too).

[|One of his Speeches in the Senate]

John Colborne A lieutenant Governor of Canada

[|Marriage Record:]

Toren:

John Clark Ridpath Educator, editor and historian. [] One of his reports. []

Clayton: James FitzGibbon [] A british soldier that lived in upper canada, and fought in the war of 1812. Also a soldier for the british during the upper canadian rebellion

Liam: Lucy Peel, she and her husband came to Canada to farm, but ended up going back to england because canada sucked. [] [] [] Also, apolitician in the twentieth century, who as a bout eight by the time of confederation. []

Rebecca: "A narrative of the captivity and adventures of John Tanner, (U.S. interpreter at the Saut de Ste. Marie,) during his thirty years residence among the Indians in the interior of North America". [click 'page view', the third tab at the top of the page, to see the document---"Tanner's Narrative" begins on page 23] [|"Tanner's Narrative" - John Tanner (1780-1847)]

Also, Thomas Storrow Brown, a journalist in Lower Canada, with his writings of [|living during the Rebellions of 1837].

Immy Eleanora Hallen: Young girl who moves to canada with family in 1836. []

David: The diary of "Mrs. Davenport", a Canadian who journeyed through the bush from Quebec to Lake St. John: [|The Diary]

Conrad **Title:** Andrew Jackson to James A. Hamilton **Author:** Andrew Jackson **Year**: 1833 **Type of document:** letter **Quotation:** "The union between Mr. Clay & Calhoun" **Annotation:** The Jacksonians made a great effort to persuade voters to identify their cause with Thomas Jefferson and their opponents with Alexander Hamilton. A radical Jacksonian made the point bluntly: "The aristocracy of our country...continually contrive to change their party name," wrote Frederick Robinson. "It was first Tory, then Federalist, then no party, then amalgamation, then National Republican." In point of fact, however, Hamilton's son was a leading Jackson advisor!

Despite his reputation as the President of the common man, Jackson's policies did little to help small farmers, artisans, and working people. Indeed, many historians now believe that notwithstanding his opposition to nullification, slaveholders were the chief beneficiaries of Jackson's policies. His Indian removal policy opened new lands for slavery in the rich cotton lands of the Old Southwest, and his view of limited government forestalled federal interference with slavery.

In this letter to James A. Hamilton (1788-1878), Jackson offers his view of the underlying political motives behind the nullification controversy. In 1840, Hamilton abandoned the Democratic party and supported the Whig Presidential candidate, William Henry Harrison. During the Civil War, Hamilton was an early proponent of slave emancipation as war measure. **Full Text:** I have been I may say, literally, pressed with business from sunrise to 12 at night.... The papers will have given you the union between Mr. Clay & Calhoun & how strange their position [is]. Nullification cannot be recognized as a peaceful & constitutional measure, and the American system of M[r.] Clay being on the wane, a union between these two extremes are formed, and I have no doubt that the people will duly appreciate the motives which have led to it. I have good reason to be gratified, content even, with my own course as I find these men are obliged to adopt it, to give peace & harmony to the union.... @http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/documents/documents_p1.cfm

Michelle: T. Spring Rice, the Secretary of State for the Canadian Colonies in wrote a letter in 1834 to 10 Downing Street about Free Grants of Land to discharged soldiers no longer being offered. []

Sara M: The story of a women who lives in canada, Amelia Harris, shares her story about how her [|mothers barn was burnt to the ground by soldiers] in 1814. Her story is copied off of the original writing with spelling and language unchanged!

Louise: Catherine Parr Traill, sister of Susanna Moodie, immigrated to Canada with Moodie. She and her sister were both already professional writers before they came to Canada. [|The Backwoods of Canada: Being letters from the wife of an emigrant officer, illustrative of the domestic economy of British America (1836)]

Kelsey: I have found some amazing primary sources on the Winslow family. This family lived in the late 1700's to the early 1800's and this [|website] has records of most of their lives.

Albert: [|Letters written to her sister, Lucy, by Dolly Madison (wife of former president James Madison) in 1814.]

Victor:

I found a book (composition) with original documents regarding an historical narrative, which includes some biographies. This book is by William Canniff, a physician, medical educator, author, school administrator, and civil servant during his time period.

Jonathan Z: I found a person named Dr. Charles Duncombe, who helped lead in the 1837 rebellion against Britiain. You can find the Wikipedia page [|here] and three articles from Canadiana [|here],[| here], and [|here.]

Jennifer A.: Alicia Cockburn was an upper class British woman and wife to an official working in Upper Canada. [|Here] is an excerpt from a letter she wrote to her cousin while she was living in Montreal.

I also came across [|Francois-Xavier Garneau], who was a French-Canadien notary, poet and historian who wrote the three-volume Histoire du Canada in response to Lord Durham's demeaning evaluation of the French-Canadiens.

Emily: Letitia Mactavish Hargrave's [|letters] to her future husband, James Hargrave.

Megan: A [|diary by Frances Elizabeth Monck], in a few of the years (1864-1865) leading up to the confederation of Canada. She was the wife of the first Governor General of Canada.

Chelsea: The diaries of Mary Hallen. []

Lexi: Betsy Frederick, aged 27, died with the burning of the ship. Formerly of Montreal. A ship's passenger list. 250 of these passengers boarded another ship which would catch fire just outside of Quebec.

Kelly: Sir John George Bourinot wrote a book about the conditions after the Rebellions of 1837. []

Meghan F: Laura Secord lived in Upper Canada, during the war of 1812, tells her story. [|Here] and [|Here].

Jonathan (T): Felix Gabriel Marchand was the 11th premier of Quebec. He was 5 years old when the Rebellions of 1837 occurred. Information about him can be found on [|Wikipedia], and at [|Canadian Biographi.com]

Mahalia: Elizabeth Blair Lee wrote many letters to her husband as she lived through the civil war time period. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Blair_Lee http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/eblee.htm http://www.civilwarwomenblog.com/2009/01/elizabeth-blair-lee.html http://www.jstor.org/pss/2208568 []

Elleni: Eleanora Hallen was a young girl who moved to Canada with her parents. She started her diaries when she was only 10. [|Journals]