Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853
by Punch, Terrence M
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Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co. New. 2008. Paperback. Ship Index, surname Index . 208 pages. From the time of the earliest European colonies, there were Irish settlers in the four provinces of Atlantic CanadaNewfoundland and Labrador, Prince Edward Island, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia. The first Irish arrivals came to Newfoundland as seasonal fishermen; between 1785 and 1835 a sizable number settled there, traveling from Waterford, Kilkenny, Wexford, Tipperary, and east Cork to work in the fishery industry. Increased immigration of the Irish elsewhere in Atlantic Canada began in the early 1800s, peaking during and shortly after the great Irish Famine in the mid-nineteenth century. During this time, large numbers of Irish and Scots-Irish immigrants passed through the Atlantic Canada ports of St. John and Halifax and a score of lesser ports, though a great many of these immigrants soon relocated to New England.Despite the flow of Irish through Atlantic Canada, the early records of these immigrants are fewer and less informative than those of New England and New York from the same period. Erins Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 17611853 goes a long way toward rectifying this problem. Author Terrence M. Punch has combed through a wide-ranging and disparate group of sourcesincluding newspaper articles and advertisements, local government documents and census records, church records, burial records, land records, military records, passenger lists, and moreto identify as many of these pioneers as possible and disclose where they came from in the Old Country. These sources often contain details that cannot be found in Irish records, where few census returns survived from before 1901, and where Catholic records began a generation or more after their counterparts in Atlantic Canada.Erins Sons not only sheds light on many of the Irish immigrants who resided in Atlantic Canada between 1761 and 1853 but also provides an invaluable tool for U.S. researchers, since many New England Irish families can trace their ancestry through Atlantic Canada. .
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 180-181) and indexes.
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- Erin's Sons: Irish Arrivals in Atlantic Canada 1761-1853
- Author
- Punch, Terrence M
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- Paperback
- Book Condition
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- ISBN 10
- 0806317825
- ISBN 13
- 9780806317823
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- Genealogical Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Baltimore
- Date Published
- 2008
- Keywords
- GENEALOGY, CANADA, IMMIGRATION
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