Irish Emigration and Canadian Settlement

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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 la...

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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 la...

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  • Formats: epub
  • ISBN: 9781487590284
  • Publication Date: 15 Dec 1990
  • Publisher: University of Toronto Press
  • Product language: English
  • Drm Setting: DRM