Portrait of an English Migration: North Yorkshire People in North America

The story of Yorkshire immigrants, what they left behind, and what they brought to North America.

Portrait of an English Migration recounts the history of those who left North Yorkshire for North America between the eighteenth century and the early twentieth century. Focusing on individual stories of migrants and their families, this book provides many personal glimpses of the migration experience of those who left England's largest county to build new lives in the United States and Canada.