Linda Brown-Kubisch

The Queen's Bush Settlement (eBook, ePUB)

Black Pioneers 1839-1865

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The Black pioneers (1839-1865) who cleared the land and established the Queen's Bush settlement in that section of unsurveyed land where present-day Waterloo and Wellington counties meet, near Hawkesville, are the focus of this extensively researched book. Linda Brown-Kubisch's attention to detail and commitment to these long-neglected settlers re-establishes their place in Ontario history. Set in the context of the early migration of Blacks into Upper Canada, this work is a must for historians and for genealogists involved in tracing family connections with these pioneer inhabitants of the Queen's Bush.

"In the 19th century one of the most important areas of settlement for fugitive American slaves was the Queen's Bush, then an isolated region in the backwoods of Ontario. Despite much recent attention to African-Canadian history, the Queen's Bush remains a remote territory for historical scholarship. Linda Brown-Kubisch offers a pioneering entry into that gap. With a jeweller's eye for the biological subject, Brown-Kubisch introduces the courageous Black adventurers and the hardships they faced in Canada." - James Walker, Professor of History, University of Waterloo, and author of The Black Loyalists (1976, 1992) and "Race," Rights and the Law (1997).

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dundurn Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Februar 2004
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781554883493
• Artikelnr.: 40009266

Autorenporträt

After living in Kitchener from 1987-92 Linda Brown-Kibisch moved to the United States where she received a master's degree in history from the University of Missouri-Columbia, worked as a reference specialist for the State Historical Society of Missouri, and wrote numerous historical and genealogical articles for both Canadian and American journals. Linda lived in Covington, a small town north of New Orleans, working as genealogy specialist for St. Tammany Parish Public Library.