List of Sources & Additional Material

 

General

Online

Wikipedia is an extremely useful resource with constant peer-editing.  However, it can contain errors and cross checking is advised where possible.

 

The Unsplash app has an amazing selection of royalty-free photographs from around the world.

 

Books

150 Stories and Images of Arrival in Northumberland County – produced by Northumberland County in celebration of Canada 150.

 

Children’s Books

Building a Home, by Casandra Lee, produced by the New Canadians Centre Peterborough

 

Making Canada Home – How Immigrants Shaped This Country, By Susan Hughes, ISBN 978-1-77147-202-9

 

Pushes & Pulls – Why do people migrate?, by Robert Walker, ISBN 978-0-7787-5198-4

 

The Kids Book of Canadian Immigration, by Deborah Hodge & John Mantha, ISBN 978-155337-484-8

 

Archives

Northumberland County Archives  https://www.northumberland.ca/en/discovering-and-exploring/northumberland-county-archives.aspx

Estonia

Room on the Boat, Translated and edited by Mary Ots Donaldson, ISBN 978-1-7386663-0-0  (Details of the story Mary tells in her video)

 

 

 

Grape Island

Before the Silence, by Ruth Clarke, ISBN 978-0-9685572-0-4 (A history of the Alderville First Nation 1825-1875)

Alderville First Nation…A History, by Brian Beaver, ISBN 978-1-7770560-0-1

 

Holland

The Netherlandic Presence in Ontario: Pillars, Class and Dutch Ethnicity by Frans J. Schryer, Wilfrid Laurier University Press, Waterloo, Ontario, 1998  ISBN 978-0-8892031-2-9

 

Ireland

Death or Canada – The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto 1847 by Mark G. McGowan, Novalis Publishing  ISBN ‎ 978-2-8964612-9-5

Reminiscences of Cobourg by Bernard McAllister  https:/www.canadiana.ca/view/oocihm.87705/1

 

Jamaica

Migrant Workers – the issues, Canadian Council for Refugees

Organizations in Canada Supporting Migrant Agricultural Workers

 

South Africa

South African History Online (a reliable source of information on South African history)

 

Sri Lanka

Book by Shane Joseph

 

Syria

Many news and humanitarian websites report regularly on the current situation in Syria.  They include Al Jazeera and World Vision.

Tracing the Evolution of the Syrian Civil War (2011-2020). Band-Aids, Not Bullets: EU Policies and Interventions in the Syrian and Iraqi Civil Wars by Erwin van Veen, Alba Di Pietrantonio Pellise, Nancy Ezzeddine, and Paolo Napolitano, Clingendael Institute  http://www.jstor.org/stable/resrep28665.7.

Syria’s Civil War: The Descent into Horror by Zachery Laub,  Council on Foreign Relations. February 14, 2023. Syria’s War and the Descent Into Horror (cfr.org).

 

USA – UEL

https://uelac.ca/ – United Empire Loyalists Association website

 

USA – URR

https://www.heritagetrust.on.ca/pages/our-stories/slavery-to-freedom – Ontario Heritage Trust pages