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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 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction
- Part One: Links in Emigration
- 2. Emigrant Origins
- 3. The Emigrants
- 4. The Emigration Process
- Part Two: Patterns of Settlement
- 5. Settling In
- 6. Social and Religious Life
- 7. The Geography of Settlement
- Part Three: Lives and Letters
- 8. Nathaniel and Joseph Carrothers: Upper Canadian Pioneers
- 9. Jane White: Townswoman in Upper Canada
- 10. Alexander Robb: Adventures in British Columbia
- 11. Conclusion
- Notes
- Index