(PDF Download) Across the Deep Blue Sea: The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants - Odd Sverre Lovoll
Across the Deep Blue Sea: The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants
Across the Deep Blue Sea investigates a chapter in Norwegian immigration history that has never been fully told before. Odd S. Lovoll relates how Quebec, Montreal, and other port cities in Canada became the gateway for Norwegian emigrants to North America, replacing New York as the main destination from 1850 until the late 1860s. During those years, 94 percent of Norwegian emigrants landed in Canada.?After the introduction of free trade, Norwegian sailing ships engaged in the lucrative timber trade between Canada and the British Isles. Ships carried timber one way across the Atlantic and emigrants on the way west. For the vast majority landing in Canadian port cities, Canada became a corridor to their final destinations in the Upper Midwest, primarily Wisconsin and Minnesota. Lovoll explains the establishment and failure of Norwegian colonies in Quebec Province and pays due attention to the tragic fate of the Gasp? settlement.?A personal story of the emigrant experience passed down
Product details: Across the Deep Blue Sea: The Saga of Early Norwegian Immigrants
Author : Odd Sverre Lovoll
Pages : 211 pages
Publisher : Minnesota Historical Society Press
Language : eng
ISBN-10 : 0873519612
ISBN-13 : 9780873519618
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