| Description | Includes posters and notices printed for the Emigration Committee set up under the auspices of the Colonial Department offering free passage to women aged 15-30 on the "Canton" which was to sail from Gravesend to Sydney in April 1835 and again on the "Charles Kerr" which was to sail to Van Diemen's Land in July 1835. Copies of papers presented to and printed by order of the House of Commons, 27th March 1835, which contains various statistical returns including names and particulars of the free female immigrants on the "Strathfieldsaye" in 1834, and a list of agricultural labourers who have emigrated, etc. |