Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement

Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement

Author: Cecil J. Houston

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 1990-12-15

Total Pages: 511

ISBN-13: 1487590288

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In mid-nineteenth-century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet they have been much less studied than their US counterparts, even though their experience was very different. Irish settlers arrived earlier in Canada, formed a larger proportion of the founding communities, and were largely rural-based; more than half were Protestant. The Famine provided only a rather late part of the Irish emigration to Canada, which took place principally between 1816 and 1855. The authors evaluate both emigration and settlement and present as well revealing personal documents about intense, often painful experiences of the settlers. Part I explores the geographical links – particularly the phenomenon of chain migration – that shaped decisions to leave Ireland. Part II examines patterns of settlement in the new land. Part III, with biographies of immigrants and collections of letters written home, chronicles personal and social life in the new land and the abiding interest in family and friends in Canada and back in Ireland. The documents illustrate links and patterns revealed in the earlier analysis of emigration and settlement; they also offer an additional, intimate perspective on a key phase in the cultural history of Canada and Ireland.


Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants

Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants

Author: Lucille H. Campey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2016-08-06

Total Pages: 425

ISBN-13: 1459730240

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Challenging the commonplace view that the Irish immigration saga was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland, Lucille Campey’s groundbreaking work redraws the picture of early Irish settlement in Atlantic Canada. Extensively documented, and drawing on all known passenger lists of the period, the book is essential reading.


Irish Migrants in the Canadas

Irish Migrants in the Canadas

Author: Bruce S. Elliott

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 9780773523210

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"This new, expanded edition of Irish Migrants in the Canadas traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who came to Canada between 1815 and 1855. This study has important implications for our understanding of nineteenth-century society in Ireland, Canada, and the United States."--Jacket.


Exiles and Islanders

Exiles and Islanders

Author: Brendan O'Grady

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9780773527683

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The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.


Irish in Ontario, 1st Edition

Irish in Ontario, 1st Edition

Author: Donald Harman Akenson

Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

Published: 1984-08-01

Total Pages: 445

ISBN-13: 077356098X

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Hailed as one of the most important books on social sciences of the last fifty years by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers. Though it is often claimed that the experience of the Irish in their homeland precluded their successful settlement on the frontier in North America, Akenson's research proves that the Irish migrants to Ontario not only chose to live chiefly in the hinterlands, but that they did so with marked success. Akenson also suggests that by using Ontario as an "historical laboratory" it is possible to make valid assessments of the real differences between Irish Protestants and Irish Catholics, characteristics which he contends are much more precisely measurable in the neutral environment of central Canada than in the turbulent Irish homeland. While Akenson is careful not to over-generalize his findings, he contends that the case of Ontario seriously calls into question conventional beliefs about the cultural limitations of the Irish Catholics not only in Canada but throughout North America.


The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855

The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855

Author: Lucille H. Campey

Publisher: Dundurn

Published: 2005-05-16

Total Pages: 399

ISBN-13: 1897045018

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Scots, some of Upper Canadas earliest pioneers, influenced its early development. This book charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout the province.