All Things in Common

Ruth Compton Brouwer is a professor emerita in the Department of History at King's University College, Western University.

• Introduction Part One: Unsettled Maritimers 1. Loyalist William and His Namesake in the Maritime Colonies: "Movement became a habit"2. The Comptons and Colonial Prince Edward Island: Settlement and Spirituality3. On the Road Again: Sojourners and Religious Renegades in the Post-Confederation EraPart Two: "Prince Edward Island’s Unique ‘Brotherly Love’ Community" 4. The Founding and Growth of an Island Utopia5. Living in Community: Family, Faith, and Fame 6. Restiveness Within, Pressures from Without: The Road to Dissolution7. Life beyond Community: Diverse Paths in an Era of ChangeConcluding Reflections

"Two exemplary contributions to Canadian social history stand out in Ruth Compton Brouwer’s All Things in Common. One is her illustration of how several research areas, such as family, religion, migration, land occupation, and rural life are connected to the utopian form of settlement, a type largely absent from Canadian historical research. Brouwer’s second contribution is to show how a utopian case can be explored sensitively yet dispassionately by a professional historian who is also a descendant of the family at the centre of the story."- Beth Moore Milroy, Toronto Metropolitan University (Histoire sociale / Social History)