“The fresh girls are on their way! The fresh girls are arriving! They shall be right here any date!” Thus screamed the news out of Victoria’s United kingdom Colonist inside the Sep away from 1862. To have Colonist journalist Amor De Cosmos – a person that have a robust sense of the new ridiculous who would fundamentally relocate to feel United kingdom Columbia’s second biggest – it absolutely was a perfect possible opportunity to attract men readers, not to mention advertisers.

The trouble is actually so it: Into horror of your United kingdom authorities, King Victoria, additionally the Anglican Church, new shimmering-with-silver valleys of your own great Fraser Lake was the place to find 29,000 some one, off just who not many have been women, or British, for instance. Most was basically unmarried, younger American dudes consumed in because of the gold-rush. How to make them British? For this reason brand new gift these people were going to located off London – a freight out-of 60 ladies regarding Great britain.

Organized by Columbia Emigration Community underneath the auspices of your Anglican Chapel, this is maybe not the original delivery off brides with the nascent nest. At around once the latest Tynemouth is actually on its way from Britain, The new Seaman’s Fiance, a vessel out-of Australian continent approximately twenty women agreeable doomed getting Victoria, docked from the San francisco bay area. “And you will just what performed the young Yankees do?” De Cosmos reported regarding the Colonist. Continua a leggere