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Paid 8d letter from Ayr, Scotland by
British contract Cunard packet
steamer Africa via Liverpool and
Halifax. 19 February, Hamilton
transit and London received.
Ayr, a coal exporting port town.
Made famous by poet Robert Burns.
To London, Upper Canada, 1February,1861 -19 days
Scottish migration grew in the 1860s, with Scotsmen migrating to urban centers including London, Upper Canada and Quebec.
