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| List of passengers imported to Prince Edward Island, 1806 |
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By the early decades of the 19th century a great change was occurring in the way in which British emigrants came to the Island to settle. At this time, a shortage in timber, brought about largely as a result of the Napoleonic Wars, compelled British merchants to turn to the Atlantic market for their supplies. This action was to have a huge impact on emigrant travel to North America. Timber importers, sending empty ships across the Atlantic on their outward journeys, were keen to exploit the potential profit to be gained from filling their vessels with departing emigrants. Whereas traditionally Island settlers had been reliant for their passage on ships chartered by land proprietors, they were now able to buy passage and travel out independently on the regularly departing timber ships.
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