The emigrant, and other poems /
McLachlan, Alexander,1817-1896.
Toronto : Rollo & Adam,
1861.
Alexander McLachlan was a native of Johnstone, in Renfrewshire, who arrived in Caledon, Peel County in 1840 to farm the land his father had owned, and who later became a tailor in Erin Township, Wellington County. The Canadian government enlisted him to study ways of attracting Scottish immigrants to Canada, and sent him back to Scotland as an emigration agent 1862. The "Emigrant" was "an attempt to sketch the history of a backwoods settlement", dealing with the arrival of the Scots to Upper Canada, their voyage and establishment of  homesteads.
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