Canterbury Pilgrims History Essay

In 1848 one of the most unusual commercial ventures of all time was formed in London. It was called the Canterbury Association and it was based on the ideas of Edward Gibbon Wakefield. His ideas were to take a slice of rural England and use it to produce ordered, civilized and self-supporting colonies. The Canterbury Association called for people willing to buy land in the new colony and venture forth to start afresh. In practice, it …

…is today. Without the people from these ships, Christ's College may have never flourished and the settlement of Christchurch may have never been built. We take our history for granted in modern day society and rarely does anyone take a look back into our past. Bibliography: A History of Canterbury, James Hight, Whitcombe and Tombs ©1957 Fendall's Legacy, Frieda Looser, Canterbury University Press ©2002 The Summer Ships, Colin Amodeo, Caxton Press ©2001 Cathedral Biography, Gwen Witt, Cathedral Publications ©1999