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    Child Emigration from Liverpool

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    Bob Edwards
    , 01-30-2014 at 01:59 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Byrom Hall opposite Great Crosshall Street
    and the adjoining premises






    Late in the 1860s Alexander Balfour and Stephen Williamson, partners in the Liverpool ship owning firm of Balfour, Williamson & Co., became concerned at the numbers of destitute
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    Canada Dock

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    Bob Edwards
    , 12-27-2013 at 12:41 PM (Liverpool Picturebook)
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    Canada Dock


    Liverpool's links with Canada go back to at least 1772, when Charles Dixon sailed from Liverpool in the 'Duke of York', to found a family dynasty in Nova Scotia. The plentiful timber available along the Canadian coast was a prime attraction - hence the port of Liverpool's Canada Dock. Records show that by 1808 Liverpool merchants were acquiring land in Prince Edward Island for timber and fisheries. In 1852, 34 million cubic feet of Canadian planks came into Liverpool,
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