Description:The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints that held them back in their homeland, they prospered. And yet, strangely enough, they continue to be mourned as victims.In the second book of the Irish in Canada series, Lucille Campey takes on the victim-ridden mythology of destitute Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s. In fact, the Irish influx to Quebec and Ontario began a century earlier.Comprehensive and extensive research has been distilled to produce an informative and lively account of this great immigration saga, whose roots date back to the time of the British Conquest of New France in 1763.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks. To get started finding Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.
Pages
424
Format
PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition
Publisher
Dundurn Press
Release
2018
ISBN
1459740858
Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks
Description: The compelling story of Canada’s Irish pioneers, revealing the enormous scope of their achievements.Beginning in the eighteenth century, an increasing number of Irish people sought the better life that Ontario and Quebec offered. Set free from the stifling economic and social constraints that held them back in their homeland, they prospered. And yet, strangely enough, they continue to be mourned as victims.In the second book of the Irish in Canada series, Lucille Campey takes on the victim-ridden mythology of destitute Irish immigrants fleeing the famine of the 1840s. In fact, the Irish influx to Quebec and Ontario began a century earlier.Comprehensive and extensive research has been distilled to produce an informative and lively account of this great immigration saga, whose roots date back to the time of the British Conquest of New France in 1763.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks. To get started finding Ontario and Quebec’s Irish Pioneers: Farmers, Labourers, and Lumberjacks, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed. Our library is the biggest of these that have literally hundreds of thousands of different products represented.