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Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement
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Rural Protest on Prince Edward Island: From British Colonization to the Escheat Movement. By Rusty Bittermann. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2006. xii + 382 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Paper $29.95.
Rusty Bittermann's exhaustive study of the Escheat movement is a must for academics interested in Prince Edward Island history in the first forty years of the nineteenth century.
The Escheat movement had its roots in Britain's decision following the Seven Years War to divide Prince Edward Island into lots and distribute them to influential men in Great Britain. In return for ...
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