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Irish emigration and Canadian settlement : patterns, links, and letters /
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Toronto ; Buffalo : Belfast :
University of Toronto Press ; Ulster Historical Foundation,
©1990.
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| Colección: | North American immigrant letters, diaries and oral histories.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (viii, 370 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-364) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781487590284 1487590288 9781487599676 1487599676 |
| Acceso: | Access restricted to Ryerson students, faculty and staff. |