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Flight from famine : the coming of the Irish to Canada  Cover Image Book Book

Flight from famine : the coming of the Irish to Canada

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  • ISBN: 9781554884186 (pbk.) :
  • ISBN: 9780771054433
  • ISBN: 0771054432
  • Physical Description: print
    368 p. : ill., maps, ports. ; 24 cm.
  • Publisher: Toronto : McClelland & Stewart : Natural Heritage Books/Dundurn Press, 2009, c1990.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published by McClelland & Stewart in 1990.
Bibliography, etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note: Wild Geese -- The Garden of Ireland -- Peter Robinson -- The Ballygiblins -- "A Perfect Mania for Going to Canada" -- "Independence and Happiness" -- The World of Humphrey O?Sullivan -- Cholera -- "Off We Go to Miramichi" -- The Green and the Orange -- "Shovelling Out the Paupers" -- Emigrant Ships -- "The Song of the Black Potato" -- Black?47 -- "The Fearful Mortality" -- Counting the Cost -- An Irishman?s Canada -- Epilogue.
Immediate Source of Acquisition Note:
Donation ; William C. Wonders ; 2007/07.
Subject: Immigrants -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Irish -- Canada -- History -- 19th century
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century
Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century

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Quesnel Branch 971.0049162 MAC (Text)
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