Irish Migrants in the Canadas: A New Approach

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP, 2004 - History - 424 pages
Including a new preface by the author, Irish Migrants in the Canadas probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration process. Bruce Elliott traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who came to Canada between 1815 and 1855 from County Tipperary, Ireland. He follows his subjects not only from Ireland to Canada but in their subsequent movements within North America. His work has important implications for current discussions of nineteenth-century society in Ireland, Canada, and the United States.
 

Contents

Introduction
3
The Protestants of North Tipperary
9
Tensions in an Agricultural Economy
36
The Beginnings of Tipperary Protestant
61
Chain Migration
82
Middlesex
116
Internal Migration
147
Migration and Family Economic Strategies
195
Conclusions
233
2004
244
A The Talbot Party 1818
279
BoydBaskerville Petition 1819
282
A NOTE ON SOURCES
371
INDEX
393
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