Perspective: European Immigrant

Historians apply the term the "Age of Mass Migration" to the movement of people from Europe that began in the mid-nineteenth century and ended by the beginning of the First World War in 1914. Some 55 million Europeans left their homes during these years. 1 Although many of these newcomers went directly to the United States, British American destinations attracted large numbers of migrants,

particularly from the British Isles. Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and England supplied a majority of the nineteenth-century immigrants to the British North American colonies between 1815 and 1865. Almost a million migrants arrived in these years.

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