From: The Encyclopedia of Canada's Peoples/Cornish/Colin H. Williams
The best volumes on Cornwall and its history are Philip Payton, The Making of Modern Cornwall (Redruth, U.K., 1992), and Philip Payton, ed., Cornwall since the War (Redruth, 1993).
Little is published on the Cornish in Canada, save for information contained on more general volumes on the Cornish in the United States or in North America in general. Cornish activity in Newfoundland is discussed in R.G. Loundsbury, The British Fishery at Newfoundland (New Haven, Conn., 1934) and G.T. Cell, English Enterprises in Newfoundland, 1577–1660 (Toronto, 1969). Estimates of mid-nineteenth century migrants to the Province of Canada are given in Margaret James-Kornay, “‘Blue Books’ as Sources for Cornish Emigration History,” Cornish Studies, second series, vol.1 (1993), 31–45. Two excellent, but more general, sources are A.L. Rowse, The Cornish in America (Redruth, 1967) and J. Rowe, The Hard-Rock Men: Cornish Immigrants and the North American Mining Frontier (Liverpool, U.K., 1974). Details on Cornish miners in Canada may be found in M.A. Barber, The Formative Years of Bruce Mines: A Social History (Bruce Mines, Ont., 1991). The careers of individual Cornish settlers in Canada are summarized in the Macmillan Dictionary of Canadian Bibliography (London, 1963) and the Dictionary of National Biography (London).
The journals Cornish Studies, the Celtic History Review, and the Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries contain occasional articles on Cornish involvement in Canada. Archival depositories which cover Cornish migration, genealogical history, industrial development, and networks of the diaspora include the Public Library and Cornwall Record Office, Truro; the Institute of Cornish Studies, Truro; the Cornish Methodist Historical Society, Truro; Papers of the Duchy of Cornwall, London; and the Centre for Maritime Historical Studies, University of Exeter.
