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Campey, Lucille H.

Atlantic Canada's Irish Immigrants : a Fish and Timber Story / Lucille H. Campey.  Toronto : Dundurn, 2016. 424 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

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Series: Irish in Canada (Dundurn Publishers). Lucille Campey traces the relocation of around ninety thousand Irish people to their new homes in Atlantic Canada. She shatters the widespread misconception that the exodus was primarily driven by the Great Irish Potato Famine of the 1840s. The Irish immigration saga began a century earlier. Although they faced great privations and had to overcome many obstacles, the Irish actively sought the better life that Atlantic Canada offered. Far from being helpless exiles lacking in ambition who went lemming-like to wherever they were told to go, the Irish grabbed their opportunities and prospered in their new home. Using wide-ranging documentary sources, the author provides new insights about why the Irish left and considers why they chose their various locations in Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Prince Edward Island, and Newfoundland. She highlights how, through their skills and energy, they benefitted themselves and contributed much to the development of Atlantic Canada. Lucille H. Campey was born in Ottawa. She is the author of eight books on early Scottish emigration to Canada and three on English emigration to Canada. Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Houston, Cecil J.

Irish emigration and Canadian settlement : patterns, links, and letters / Cecil J. Houston, William J. Smyth.  Toronto : Belfast : University of Toronto Press ; Ulster Historical Foundation, 1990. viii, 370 pages : illustrations, maps

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Punch, Terrence M.

Irish immigrants to the Canadas, 1833-1846 : The Irish Genealogist / Terrence M. Punch.  London : The Irish Genealogical Research Society, 1990. Volume 8 number 1; 8 pages : 25 cm.

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Mannion, John J.

Irish settlements in eastern Canada : a study of cultural transfer and adaptation / John J. Mannion.  Toronto : Published for the University of Toronto, Department of Geography, by the University of Toronto Press, 1974. vii, 219 pages: illustrations; 23 cm.

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McGuigan, Peter T.

The Irish / Peter T. McGuigan.  1st ed. Tantallon : Four East Publications, 1991. vi, 74 pages : illustrations, map, portraits ; 23 cm.

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Nolte, William M.

The Irish in Canada, 1815-1867 / by William M. Nolte.  1975. ix, 384 pages : illustrations

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Abstracted in Dissertation abstracts international, v. 36 1975 no. 6, pages 3935-A. Vita. University Microfilms order no. 75-29,124.

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The Untold story : the Irish in Canada / edited by Robert O'Driscoll & Lorna Reynolds.  Toronto : Celtic Arts of Canada, 1988. 2 v. (xxxii, 1041 pages) : illustrations (some colour), maps, po

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