Ports of empire: immigration, communication, and cholera in Newfoundland, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, 1830-1870 by Fowler, M, Madeline Fowler

“…This thesis presents the way in which colonial port towns managed the recurrent and unpredictable threats to their health, wellbeing and prosperity during this period, and highlights the increasing strain and growing dislocation felt by British North Americans under colonial rule.…”