Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement : : Patterns, Links, and Letters /

Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement : : Patterns, Links, and Letters / / Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
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Houston, Cecil J.,
Smyth, William J.,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1990
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
Series:Heritage
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.) :; figures, maps, tables, h/ts throughout
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Table of Contents:
  • 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

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