Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants
Language: English
Publisher: Dundurn Press
Published: Jul 15, 2016
Words:
80440
Flesch:
72.58
DDC:
971.0049162
FAST Tags:
Canada,
Lumber trade,
Immigrants,
Ireland,
Emigration and immigration,
Irish,
Canada--Atlantic Provinces,
Fisheries
LCC:
F1035.I6
Book Details
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Description:
A transformative work that explodes assumptions about the importance of the Great Irish Potato Famine to Irish immigration.In this major study, Lucille Campey traces the relocation of around ninety thousand Irish people to their new homes in Atlantic Canada. She shatters the widespread misconception that the exodus was primarily driven by dire events in Ireland. The Irish immigration saga is not solely about what happened during the Great Potato Famine of the 1840s; it began a century earlier.
Although they faced great privations and had to overcome many obstacles, the Irish actively sought the better life that Atlantic Canada offered. Far from being helpless exiles lacking in ambition who went lemming-like to wherever they were told to go, the Irish grabbed their opportunities and prospered in their new home.
Campey gives these settlers a voice. Using wide-ranging documentary sources, she provides new insights about why the Irish left and considers why they...