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Ontario and Quebec's Irish pioneers : farmers, labourers, and lumberjacks / Lucille H. Campey.

By: Publication details: Toronto : Dundurn, 2018.Description: 412 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 9781459740846 (pbk.)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 971.3004/9162 23
Summary: Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating -- and thriving in -- Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings an informative and lively account of this great saga.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Taking on the myth that Irish settlers in Canada were a wave of famine victims, Lucille Campey reveals the pioneering achievements of the Irish who began populating -- and thriving in -- Ontario and Quebec a century before the famine of 1840. The second volume of the Irish in Canada series brings an informative and lively account of this great saga.

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