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Why did the Herseys leave Canada in 1883?

2/26/2016

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Colour postcard of a "laker" in the Soo canal at Sault Saint Marie coated in ice from a passage, probably on Lake Superior, circa 1920


Perhaps it was...
The Weather…



Although Ontario weather is not exactly Mediterranean, this little shocker of a snapshot is actually misleading.   The locale is Far to the Northwest from Kingston.  Extreme weather did not hit the eastern and mid areas of North America until after 1885, leading to the phantasmal Children's Blizzard of 1887 a, b.

Why did  Thomas Albert and Elizabeth Hersey choose to leave beatific  southern Ontario in the mid 1880's?  The list of reasons to stay were long: 

• The scenery was breathtaking. 
• Their relatives lived within a day's train or steamboat ride.
•  Nationalism and Canadian pride was on the rise.   Canada was heading toward unification and it is doubtful that this had any negative affect on the family.
• They had access to the best doctors and highest state-of-the-art health care of the time. 
• Economically, things were looking good.  Take a peek at the Canadian  Sessional Papers of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario, Canada, 1882-1883, Volume 15, Part 3.  The 1881 Canadian census shows that even the two teenage boys in the Hersey family  had work (William as a clerk, Thomas Jr. as a baker).    Most likely the reasons for leaving were not economic.   Predictions for work in carpentry (Thomas's employment) were positive.
• Records indicate that their extended families were close, living next to each other, working next to each other, attending the same churches, participating in the same community fraternities. 
• It appears that Thomas Albert Sr. may have been somewhat well-off; they owned more than one property. 
• There are no records of trouble in their Primitive Methodist Church; there were alternative places of worship if this were true.
• As mentioned above, the weather was not particularly extreme for the area.  Actual records for each day of the year can be found in the  Canadian Temperature Archives.


Well, then, why leave?


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