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 Ireland & Northern Ireland  Genealogy & History Resources BOOK - Flight From Famine, The Coming Of The Irish To Canada By Donald MacKay
One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements from Nova Scotia to the Great Lakes. Then, in the 1840s, came the failures of Ireland's potato crop, which people in the west of Ireland had depended on for survival. "And that," wrote a Sligo countryman, "was the beginning of the great trouble and famine that destroyed Ireland."Flight from Famine is the moving account of a Victorian-era tragedy that has echoes in our own time but seems hardly credible in the light of Ireland's modern prosperity. The famine survivors who helped build Canada in the years that followed Black '47 provide a testament to courage, resilience, and perseverance. By the time of Confederation, the Irish population of Canada was second only to the French, and four million Canadians can claim proud Irish descent. About the Author:
Height: 9 Inches Pages: 176 Format: Paperback Originally published by McClelland and Stewart 1990 Publication Date of this issue: Spring 2009 Publisher: Dundurn Press ISBN13: 9781554884186 More Genealogy & History Resources from Global Genealogy:
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