Browsing by Subject "Irish -- New Brunswick -- Saint John -- History"

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The Irish experience in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saint John, New Brunswick, and St. John's, Newfoundland : a comparative analysis

Lahey, Doyle (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 2010)

Many historians of the Irish experience in Canada have argued that the Irish migrants in British North America originated primarily from Ulster, settled overwhelmingly in rural regions where they became pioneering farmers, ...
Poor, 'ignorant children': 'a great resource' : the Saint John Emigrant Orphan Asylum admittance ledger in context

Murphy, Peter, 1963- (Halifax, N.S. : Saint Mary's University, 1997)

Between 1815 and 1867, more than 150 000 Irish immigrants passed through the port of Saint John, New Brunswick. Initially and as long as the economy flourished, the Irish were received with open arms. However, as the century ...

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