Cleng, Cleng
Name like a song.
Lonely and lean
Drifting along.
Crossing the prairies and wading
the streams,
His purse full of nothing, his hat
full of dreams.
— Veien har ingen ende.
Kilde: Erik Bye, 1975 i boken Erik Bye, Veien har ingen ende, med tegninger av Karl Erik Harr, utgitt av J. W. Cappelen Forlag a.s, Oslo 1976, s. 27.
Cleng Peerson
Cleng Peerson ble født 1783 i Tysvær, Rogaland, og døde desember 1865 i Norse, Bosque County, Texas. Han er kjent som utvandrernes stifinner, men er også et symbol på alle som våger å bryte opp fra det kjente og gi seg på vandring ut i det ukjente. I sitt eget liv sto Cleng Peerson for toleranse i forhold til andre når det gjaldt religion, språk og hudfarge. Han hadde omgang med naboer, landsmenn, hvite amerikanere og indianere. Han respekterte dem alle.
Begrepet migrasjon omfatter flyttinger og vandringer over landegrenser, både utvandring fra Norge og innvandring til Norge. Det er et mål at håndbok for migrasjon skal stå for toleranse og respekt overfor mennesker på vandring – den gang og i dag.
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From the Vigsnes Copper Mine to the copper mines in Montana
In the 1870s and into the 1880s the copper and pyrite mine at Vigsnæs in Avaldsnes on the west coast island of Karmøy was the largest mine in Norway. For more than a decade the newcomer, now known as Visnes or Vigsnes, on the North Sea surpassed the 300-year-old Royal silver mining establishment at Kongsberg Sølvværk in eastern Norway, as well as the 200-year-old highland…
Les mer From the Vigsnes Copper Mine to the copper mines in Montana
The Archive/Arkivet
Åpne arkivskuffene:
- Canadian prairies and Norwegian immigrants
- Cleng Peerson og tidlig emigrasjon
- Drømmen om egen gård
- Helse og levekår
- Innvandring, utvandring og migrasjonskjeder
- Kirke, utdanning, norskhet og etnisitet
- Nordmenn i den amerikanske borgerkrigen
- Norske immigranter i Midtvesten
- Norske immigranter i Montana
- Norske immigranter i Texas
- Norske ingeniører i Amerika
- Norske innvandrere og indianere
- Tilbakevandring
NYHET! Nå i bokhandelen! Utgitt på Fagbokforlaget, Bergen
I hjertet av Texas forklarer hvordan og hvorfor så mange utvandrere fra Rogaland, Agder og Hedmark endte opp som nybyggere i Texas. Dette er fortellingen om uår, malaria og indianere, om nordmenns holdninger til slaveri, om deres rolle i sørstatshæren under borgerkrigen og hvordan de rekrutterte billig arbeidskraft hjemmefra. Les omtale i Forskning.no.
Farmers arrived in southern Alberta in large numbers after 1900
A surprising number of Norwegian-American farmers participated in the settler boom in southern Alberta after 1900. Many among their children and children’s children still live and farm in the region today. Seen from a Norwegian perspective it is both fascinating and…
Les mer… Farmers arrived in southern Alberta in large numbers after 1900
The early settling of Manitoba
Homesteaders exploring opportunities for settlement on the Canadian prairie west of Winnipeg, traveled along either the north or south branches of the Saskatchewan Trail. Prior to 1870 settlements in Manitoba were confined to river lots along the Red River and the…
Red River of the North, Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the Scandinavians
Red River of the North. Created by Carl Musser, based on USGS and Digital Chart of the World. 2023*
Les mer… Red River of the North, Manitoba, Winnipeg, and the Scandinavians
Scandinavian settlements in Central Alberta
When professor Arthur S. Morton published his book History of Prairie Settlement in 1938, he titled his fifth chapter: “Settlement follows the Railways, 1891-1901.” The railway lines which were completed between 1891 and 1896 came to have a clear direction on…
De lange, flate åsene i Bosque-dalen minte dem om landskap i Norge.
Forward scouts in Central Alberta and Scandinavian settlements
The Scandinavian emigration to the United States and Canada has countless examples of chain migration, however, it was seldom a joint action with full transplantation of communities. The forward scout was a common feature in many cases. Scouts often investigated new possibilities in another…
Les mer… Forward scouts in Central Alberta and Scandinavian settlements
Martin T. Grande: Sheep pioneer in Montana
On May 25, 1866, the bark “Nicanor” left the town of Trondheim in Trøndelag, Norway. “Nicanor”, with a gross tonnage of 438, was built in Skellefteå in Sweden in 1857. When the ship set its course for Quebec in Canada, it had 233 steerage…
When the Last Best West moved north to the prairies in Canada
The Laurier government was elected in Canada in 1896. It soon put into action an aggressive immigration policy campaign. “Free homesteads were offered promiscuously throughout the world, with the object of inducing settlement on the plains in Western Canada.”[1] The Canadian government placed advertisements…
Les mer… When the Last Best West moved north to the prairies in Canada
Some patterns of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada
From the end of the American Civil War and until the economic bust in 1893, European immigrants chose to settle in the Midwest and the Northwestern parts of the United States. Even emigrants in Canada preferred the United States during those decades. At least…
Les mer… Some patterns of Norwegian immigration to America and Canada