Rules of the Preston Operative Permanent Emigration Society
Subtitle: held at the Weavers' Institute, Lawson Street
Publisher: The Society; J. Harkness)
Published: 1863
Place of publication: Preston [England
Language: eng
Number of pages: 15
Subjects: Emigration and immigration; Industries; Cotton manufacture
Notes: "The object of this Society is, to transfer the working classes of Preston to Canada, where the fertility of the soil stands unrivalled for luxuriance"--p. [11].

The Society was organized amongst the weavers and cotton operatives of Lancashire due to the distress brought to the industry and mills by the Aemrican Civil War.