TY - THES KW - Black people KW - Churches Baptist KW - Clergy KW - Land development KW - Land sales KW - Land surveyors KW - Schools KW - Churches Methodist KW - Settlers Black KW - Missionaries KW - Settlement process KW - Squatters AU - Linda Brown-Kubisch AB - A study of the settlement by escaped slaves and other blacks in the Queen's Bush area to the north and west of Waterloo County, which included in the 1830s and 1840s the northern half of Wellesley Township and the western portion of Woolwich Township. Chapter 1 gives an overview to 1860, Chapter 2 describes the processes of in-migration and informal settlement, and Chapters 3 and 4 the relationships between missionaries of the inter-denominational American Missionary Association and the black community. Three journal articles have made parts of the thesis more accessible and they are indexed in more detail in the WRP electronic bibliography. C2 - American Missionary Association C3 - Queen's Bush; Wellesley Tp; Woolwich Tp; Peel Tp; Yatton C4 - 1830-1860 C7 - English(30) DP - Bloomfield, Elizabeth. Waterloo County to 1972: an annotated bibliography of regional history. Kitchener : Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993 ID - 1479 M1 - Dissertation/Thesis M3 - Print(0) PB - University of Missouri-Columbia PY - 1995 SP - 135 p. T1 - The black experience in Canada's Queen's Bush ER -