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Manuscripts and Artwork
Bodleian Library, University of Oxford, MS. Acland (Acland Family Papers)
Library and Archives Canada, Sir Henry Wentworth Acland Fonds
Works by or about Henry Wentworth Acland
Acland, Henry W. Feigned Insanity, How Most Usually Simulated and How Best Detected. London: R. Clay, 1844.
———. Ground-Work of Culture. Oxford: Parker & Co., 1883.
———, preface. Handbook for Hospital Sisters. Florence S. Lees. London: W. Ibster, 1874.
———. Harveian Oration. London: MacMillan and Co., 1865.
———. Memoir on the Cholera at Oxford in the Year 1854. London: John Churchill and J.H. & J. Parker, 1856.
———. National Health. Oxford and London: James Parker & Co., 1871.
———. Synopsis of the Pathological Series in the Oxford Museum. Oxford: Clarendon P., 1867.
Acland, H.W., and John Ruskin. The Oxford Museum. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1859.
Atlay, J.B. Sir Henry Wentworth Acland. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1903.
Works by Other Authors
Acland, Arthur Henry Dyke. Daily Steps Towards Heaven. New York: Daniel Dana, 1852.
Austin, John. The Province of Jurisprudence Determined. London: John Murray, 1832.
Baker, Melvin. “Insanity and Politics: The Establishment of a Lunatic Asylum in St John’s Newfoundland, 1836-1855.” Newfoundland Quarterly 77, no. 2 & 3 (1981): 27-31.
———. “The Politics of Poverty: Providing Public Poor Relief in Nineteenth Century St. John’s, Newfoundland.” Newfoundland Quarterly 78 (Spring and Summer 1982): 20-23.
Bannister, Jerry. Government, 1730-1815. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 1997. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/government-1730-to-1815.php (accessed January 6, 2015).
———. Reform Era, 1815-1832. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 1997. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/representative-government-1832-to-1855.php (accessed March 22, 2014).
Biedner, Robert E. “Early Years of American Ethnology.” In Science Encounters the Indian. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1986.
Blackwell, Thomas. Report from the Year 1859. London: Waterlot & Sons, 1859.
Brunel, Isambard. A Sketch of the Life and Character of Sarah Acland. London: Seeley & Co, 1894.
Buckner, Philip, ed. Canada and the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford U.P., 2008.
———. “The Transformation of the Maritimes: 1815-1860.” The London Journal of Canadian Studies 9 (1993): 13-30.
Bumstead, J.M. “The Land Question on Prince Edward Island and the Quitrent Controversy of 1802-1806.” Acadiensis 29 ((Spring and Summer) 2000): 3-26.
Carlos, Ann M., and Frank Lewis. “The Profitability of Early Canadian Railroads: Evidence from the Grand Trunk and Great Western Railway Companies.” In Strategic Factors in Nineteenth Century American Economic History. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992.
Coates, Colin M. “French Canadian Ambivalence to the British Empire.” In Canada and the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Comeau, Robert, and Gaston Deschȇnes. “L’Incendie Du Parlement à Montréal en 1849.” Bulletin d’Histoire Politique 22 (automne 2013). Https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/bhp/2013-v22-n1-bhp0848/1018819ar.
Cooper, Thomas. Evolution, The Stone Book, and The Mosaic Record of Creation. London: Hodder & Stoughton, 1878. Https://www.google.ca/?gws_rd=ssl.
Crellin, John K. A Social History of Medicines in the Twentieth Century. Binghampton, N. Y.: Haworth Press, 2004.
Darwin, Charles. “Letter to T.H. Huxley.” Letter 2854, 3 July 1860. Www.darwinproject.ac.uk.
Day, S.P. “Economic Growth at Montreal in the 1860’s.” In Early Travellers in the Canadas 1791-1867, edited by Gerald M. Craig. Toronto: Macmillan, 1955.
De Volpi, Charles P. Québec: Recueil Iconographique / Pictorial Record. Sherbrooke: Longman Canada, 1971.
Drake, Daniel. Practical Treatise on the History, Prevention, and Treatment of Epidemic Cholera. Cincinatti: Corey & Fairbank, 1832.
———. Principal Diseases of the Interior Valley of North America as They Appear in the Caucasian, African, Indian, and Esquimaux Varieties of the Population. Philadelphia: Lippincott, Grambo, 1854.
Dumont-Johnson, Micheline. “Des Garderies Au XX Siècle: Les Salles d’Asile Des Soeurs Grises à Montréal.” Revue d’Histoire de l’Amérique Française 34, no. I (1980): 27-55.
Durandus, William. Churches and Church Ornaments: A Translation of Rationale Divinorum Officiorum. Introduction, essay, notes Rev. John Mason Neale and Rev. Benjamin Webb. Leeds: Green, T.W., 1843.
Epstein, Clarence. Montreal City of Spires. Quebec: Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2012.
Errington, Elizabeth Jane. “British Migration and British America.” In Canada and the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
Farrell, Sean. Rituals and Riots: Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster 1784-1886. Lexington, Kentucky: University Press of Kentucky, 2000.
Ferry, Georgina. A Wonderland of Natural History. Oxford: Oxford Museum of Natural History, 2011.
Francis, Daniel. The Imaginary Indian. Vancouver: Arsenal Pulp Press, 1992.
Gibson, James A. “The Duke of Newcastle and British North American Affairs 1859-1864.” Canadian Historical Review 44, no. 2 (1963): 142-56.
Godfrey, C.M. The Cholera Epidemic in Upper Canada 1832-1866. Toronto: Seccombe House, 1968.
Greer, Allan, and Ian Radforth, eds. Colonial Leviathan: State Formation in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Canada. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1992.
Hallet, Christine E. Celebrating Nurses: A Visual History. Thailand: Fil Rouge Press, 2010.
Harvey, Janice. “Dealing with ‘the Destitute and the Wretched,’ the Protestant House of Industry and Refuge in Nineteenth-Century Montreal.” Canadian Historical Association 12, no. I (2001): 73-94.
Head, Edmund. “Extract of a Report of Sir Edmund Head.” In Report of the Poor Law Commissioners, 141-42. London: Clowes & Sons, 1840.
Head, Sir Edmund. Ballads and Other Poems – Original and Translated. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1868.
Hibbitts, Bernard J. “Progress and Principle: The Legal Thought of Sir John Beverley Robinson.” Revue Du Droit McGill 34 (1989): 455-529.
Higgins, Jenny. Religion and Politics, 1832-1855. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 2009. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/religion-politics-1832-to-1855.php (accessed January 3, 2015).
Hiller, J.K. James Cook. Memorial University: Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage, 1998. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/james-cook.php (accessed January 24, 2015).
Hull, Edward. The Coal-Fields of Great Britain: Their History, Structure, and Resources. London: Edward Stanford, 1861.
Innis, Mary Quale, ed & intro. Mrs. Simcoe’s Diary. Toronto: Macmillan of Canada, 1971.
Janzen, Olaf. French Presence in Newfoundland. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 1998. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/exploration/french-presence-newfoundland.php (accessed August 1, 2013).
Keble, John. The Christian Year. London: Oxford U.P., 1914.
Kuhn, Thomas S. The Essential Tension: Selected Studies in Scientific Tradition and Change. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1977.
Lefroy, John Henry. Diary of a Magnetic Survey of a Portion of the Dominion of Canada, Chiefly in the North-West Territories, Executed in the Years 1842-1844. London: Longmans, Green, & Co., 1883.
Legge, Charles. A Glance at the Victoria Bridge and the Men Who Built It, 1860.
Linklater, Andro. Owning the Earth. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.
Logan, Sir W.E. Logan. “On the Packing of the Ice in the River St Lawrence.” Canadian Naturalist 3 (1858): 115-22.
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. The Song of Hiawatha. Boston & New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1898.
Lyell, Sir Charles. Principles of Geology. New York: D. Appleton, 1854.
McCalla, Douglas. “Economy and Empire: Britain and Canadian Development, 1783-1971.” In Canada and the British Empire. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.
McMullin, Stanley E. “In Search of the Tory Mind: Thomas Chandler Haliburton and Egerton Ryerson.” In The Thomas Chandler Haliburton Symposium. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1985.
Mills, Arthur. Colonial Military Expenditures. London: James Ridgeway, 1861.
Osborne, Brian. “The Settlement of Kingston’s Hinterland.” In Essays on Kingston in the Nineteenth Century. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1976.
Parkman, Francis. Montcalm and Wolfe. Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1889.
Peacock, Shane. The Great Farini: The High-Wire Life of William Hunt. Toronto: Viking, 1995.
Pentland, H. Clare. Labour and Capital in Canada 1650-1860. Ed & intro by Paul Phillips. Toronto: James Lorimer, 1981.
Porter, Roy. Madness: A Brief History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.
Putnam, J. Harold. Egerton Ryerson and Education in Upper Canada. Toronto: William Briggs, 1912.
Radforth, Ian. Royal Spectacle: The 1860 Visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada and the United States. Toronto Buffalo London: University of Toronto Press, 2004.
———. “The Shantymen.” In Labouring Lives: Work and Workers in Nineteenth-Century Ontario. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1995.
Rompkey, Ronald. The Newfoundland Gardien and the French Fishery. The French Shore. Provincial Archives of Newfoundland and Labrador, 2003.
Ryerson, Egerton. Report on a System of Public Education, Instruction for Upper Canada. Montreal: Levell and Gibson, 1847.
Shephard, David A.E. Island Doctor: John Mackieson and Medicine in Nineteenth-Century Prince Edward Island. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
Simmins, Geoffrey. Fred Cumberland: Building the Victorian Dream. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997.
Smallwood, Charles. “Contributions to Meteorology, Reduced from Observations Taken at St Martin, Isle Jesus.” Canadian Naturalist and Geologist 3 (1858): 110-15.
Smith, Adam. An Inquiry Into the Causes of the Wealth of Nations. 1776. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1976.
Tennyson, Brian Douglas, and Roger Sarty. Guardian of the Gulf: Sydney, Cape Breton, & the Atlantic Wars. Toronto: University of Toronto P., 2000.
Triggs, Stanley, Brian Young, Conrad Graham, and Gilles Lauzon. The Victoria Bridge in Montreal in the Nineteenth Century. Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1992.
Tuck, Robert C. “The Impact of Tractarianism on the Maritimes.” revised 2002. The Atlantic Theological Conference. Charlottetown, 1983.
Vodden, Christy. No Stone Unturned: The First 150 Years of the Geological Survey of Canada. Ottawa: Energy, Mines, and Resources, Canada, 1992.
Von Humboldt, Alexander. Cosmos: A Sketch of a Physical Description of the Universe. London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1848.
Webb, Jeff A. Representative Government, 1832-1855. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 2001. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/representative-government-1832-to-1855.php (accessed March 22, 2014).
———. Responsible Government, 1855-1933. Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Memorial University, 2001. Https://www.heritage.nf.ca/articles/politics/representative-government-1832-to-1855.php (accessed March 22, 2014).
Weld, Charles Richard. A Vacation Tour in the United States and Canada. London: Longmans, Brown, Green & Longmans, 1855.
Wilberforce, Samuel. “On the origin of species.” Quarterly Review 108 (1860). The Victorian Web.
Wise, M. Norton, intro. The Values of Precision. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1995.
Wynn, Graeme. “Administration in Adversity: The Deputy Surveyors and Control of the New Brunswick Crown Forest Before 1844.” Acadiensis 7 (Autumn 1977): 49-65.
Yanni, Carla. Nature’s Museums: Victorian Science and the Architecture of Display. London: Athlone, 1999.
Zeller, Suzanne. Inventing Canada: Early Victorian Science and the Idea of a Transcontinental Nation. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Many entries in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography have also been a rich source of historical context.