Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada - Hardcover

MacKay, Donald

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0771054432 ISBN 13: 9780771054433

Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Inc., 1990

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This is the moving story of the mass migration that brought a million Irish men and women to Canada in the first half of the nineteenth century. After leaving conditions so bad that one witness described how “they wandered into towns and died in the streets,” many arrived penniless, hoping to “make good” in the new world. In one tragic year, 5,000 died at sea and another 5,400 got no farther than a grave on Grosse Île. But, despite the countless daily hardships facing settlers in a harsh new land, by the time of Confederation the Irish were the second-largest ethnic group after the French.

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The author of ten books of popular history, <b>Donald MacKay</b> lives in County Wexford, Ireland.

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moving story of the mass migration that brought a million Irish men and women to Canada in the first half of the nineteenth century. After leaving conditions so bad that one witness described how “they wandered into towns and died in the streets,” many arrived penniless, hoping to “make good” in the new world. In one tragic year, 5,000 died at sea and another 5,400 got no farther than a grave on Grosse Île. But, despite the countless daily hardships facing settlers in a harsh new land, by the time of Confederation the Irish were the second-largest ethnic group after the French.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: McClelland & Stewart Inc.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0771054432
• ISBN 13: 9780771054433
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 368
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