Ontario And Quebecs Irish Pioneers

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459740858
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2018-09-08 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating — and thriving in — Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings an informative and lively account of this great saga.

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459730240
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2016-08-06 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1897045018
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scottish Pioneers of Upper Canada, 1784-1855 written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2005-05-16 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scots, some of Upper Canadas earliest pioneers, influenced its early development. This book charts the progress of Scottish settlement throughout the province.

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459703537
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking a Better Future written by Lucille H. Campey and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-08-11 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most emigration from England was voluntary, self-financed, and pursued by people who, while expecting to improve their economic prospects, were also critical of the areas in which they first settled. The exodus from England that gathered pace during the 19th century accounted for the greatest part of the total emigration from Britain to Canada. And yet, while copious emigration studies have been undertaken on the Scots and the Irish, very little has been written about the English in Canada. Drawing on wide-ranging data collected from English record offices and Canadian archives, Lucille Campey considers why people left England and traces their destinations in Ontario and Quebec. A mass of detailed information relating to pioneer settlements and ship crossings has been distilled to provide new insights on how, why, and when Ontario and Quebec acquired their English settlers. Challenging the widely held assumption that emigration was primarily a flight from poverty, Campey reveals how the ambitious and resourceful English were strongly attracted by the greater freedoms and better livelihoods that could be achieved by relocating to Canada’s central provinces.

Author : Lucille H. Campey
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781838032807
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Canada's Irish Pioneers written by Lucille H. Campey and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A vivid and detailed account of the Irish immigrants who settled in early Canada.Canada's Irish Pioneers is Lucille Campey's third book on Irish immigration to Canada. It incorporates material from her two previous books relating to Atlantic Canada and Ontario and Quebec and describes their settlements in the Prairies and British Columbia. New insights are also provided on the financial assistance provided by landlords to their tenants during the famine years and by the custodians of workhouses later on. Canada's Irish Pioneers is the first, fully-documented account, produced in recent times, of the great migration of Irish people to Canada. It is packed full of data on sea crossings and settlements, and the phenomenal geographical progress which the Irish made across Canada can be viewed in twenty six maps.The Irish were ambitious people with big dreams who were desperate to escape from the poverty in their homeland. This saga is all about the thrusting, brave and well-organized immigrants who prospered in Canada.Extensively documented, the book contains much of vital interest to genealogists and historians.Lucille Campey, born in Ottawa, is the author of fourteen books on early Scottish, English and Irish immigration to Canada. A professional researcher and historian, she has a master's degree in medieval history from Leeds University and a Ph.D. from Aberdeen University in emigration history. She lives near Salisbury in Wiltshire, England.In his recent "Canada's Anglo-Celtic Connections" blog, John Reid outlined the extensive coverage of the book and its value to family historians" -- publisher.

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ISBN 13 : 9780777934319
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Irish Palatine Pioneers in Upper Canada written by and published by . This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert John Grace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Irish in Quebec written by Robert John Grace and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Don Loucks
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1459745566
Total Pages : 406 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Modest Hopes written by Don Loucks and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrating Toronto’s built heritage of row houses, semis, and cottages and the people who lived in them. Despite their value as urban property, Toronto’s workers’ cottages are often characterized as being small, cramped, poorly built, and in need of modernization or even demolition. But for the workers and their families who originally lived in them from the 1820s to the 1920s, these houses were far from modest. Many had been driven off their ancestral farms or had left the crowded conditions of tenements in their home cities abroad. Once in Toronto, many lived in unsanitary conditions in makeshift shantytowns or cramped shared houses in downtown neighbourhoods such as The Ward. To then move to a self-contained cottage or rowhouse was the result of an unimaginably strong hope for the future and a commitment to family life. Through the stories of eight families who lived in these “Modest Hopes,” authors Don Loucks and Leslie Valpy bring an important but forgotten part of the Toronto narrative to life. They illuminate the development of Toronto’s working-class neighbourhoods, such as Leslieville, Corktown, and others, and explain the designs and architectural antecedents of these undervalued heritage properties.

Author : Carol Bennett McCuaig
Publisher : Renfrew, Ont. : Juniper Books
ISBN 13 : 9780919137165
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peter Robinson's Settlers written by Carol Bennett McCuaig and published by Renfrew, Ont. : Juniper Books. This book was released on 1987 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Edward Taylor Fletcher
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
ISBN 13 : 1771993456
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Of Sunken Islands and Pestilence written by Edward Taylor Fletcher and published by Athabasca University Press. This book was released on 2022-08-16 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edward Taylor Fletcher was born in England in 1817 and arrived in Canada as a young boy. An important figure in Canadian literature, Fletcher’s writing was almost entirely forgotten by history. In this volume, James Gifford has gathered and annotated Fletcher’s essays and poems, writings that describe a nineteenth-century Canadian cultural life far more cosmopolitan than what we might have imagined. Fletcher was a voracious reader of works in many languages and although he was oriented toward Britain, his writing notably reflects a gaze fixed on a horizon much further away. His work therefore stands in contrast to the tendency of later Canadian writers, who focus inward on the nation, and on issues of Canadian identity. His work as a surveyor allowed him to travel across the country, observing the Canadian landscape which appears interwoven with different literary traditions in his metrically complex poetry. By recuperating Fletcher’s works, Gifford expands our view of nineteenth-century Canadian literature and establishes Fletcher as a remarkable literary figure worthy of attention.