Alexander Carlisle Buchanan (23 December 1808 – 2 February 1868) was an Irishman appointed by Britain to serve as the Chief Agent for Emigration in Quebec, Lower Canada in 1828. Buchanan himself advised the British authorities to appoint only Canadians as emigration agents, not as immigration officers, to ensure that the administration (of immigration to the colony from the mother country) was "free from local prejudice".[1][2]
References
edit- ^ Jean Hamelin; Francess G. Halpenny (1 December 1976). Halpenny, Francess G. (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. University of Toronto Press. p. 377. ISBN 0-8020-3319-9.
- ^ Robert Grace (1999). The Irish in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada and the Case of Quebec. PhD Thesis, Université Laval. pp. 25–26.
External links
edit- Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience at Library and Archives Canada
- Alexander Carlisle Buchanan at Find a Grave