28 Facts About Irish Canadian

Irish Canadian immigrants were majority Protestant before the Irish Canadian famine years of the late 1840s, when far more Catholics than Protestants arrived.

Between 1830 and 1850,624,000 Irish Canadian arrived; in contextual terms, at the end of this period, the population of the provinces of Canada was 2.

Great majority of Irish Canadian Catholics arrived in Grosse Isle, an island in Quebec in the St Lawrence River, which housed the immigration reception station.

In Ontario, the Irish Canadian fought with the French for control of the Catholic Church, with the Irish Canadian successful.

In that instance, the Irish Canadian sided with the Protestants to oppose the demand for French-language Catholic schools.

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Irish Canadian immigrants arrived in large numbers in Montreal during the 1840s and were hired as labourers to build the Victoria Bridge, living in a tent city at the foot of the bridge.

Irish Canadian would go on to settle permanently in the close-knit working-class neighbourhoods of Pointe-Saint-Charles, Verdun, Saint-Henri, Griffintown and Goose Village, Montreal.

Irish Canadian would settle in large numbers in Quebec City and establish communities in rural Quebec, particularly in Pontiac, Gatineau and Papineau where there was an active timber industry.

The Irish constitute the second largest ethnic group in the province after French Canadians.

Irish Canadian were instrumental in the building of the Rideau Canal and subsequent settlement along its route.

Three Irish Canadian settlements were established in North Hastings: Umfraville, Doyle's Corner, and O'Brien Settlement.

Orange Order parades ended in rioting with Catholics, many Irish Canadian-speaking, fighting against increased marginalization trapped in Irish Canadian ghettos at York Point and North End areas such as Portland Point.

In three years alone, 1844 to 1847,30,000 Irish Canadian came to Partridge Island, a quarantine station in the city's harbour.

Irish-born and Canadian-born Irish accumulated wealth in a similar way, and that being Irish was not an economic disadvantage by the 1890s.

The early Irish Canadian came to the Miramichi because it was easy to get to with lumber ships stopping in Ireland before returning to Chatham and Newcastle, and because it provided economic opportunities, especially in the lumber industry.

Saint John and Chatham, New Brunswick saw large numbers of Irish Canadian migrants, changing the nature and character of both municipalities.

From 1767 through 1810 English speaking Irish Canadian Protestants were brought to the colony as colonial pioneers to establish the British system of government with its institutions and laws.

The Irish Canadian-born Captain Walter Patterson was the first Governor of St John's Island from 1769 until he was removed from office by Whitehall in 1787.

In 1806, The Benevolent Irish Canadian Society was founded as a philanthropic organization in St John's, Newfoundland for locals of Irish Canadian birth or ancestry, regardless of religious persuasion.

Over time, the Irish Canadian Catholics became wealthier than their Protestant neighbours, which gave incentive for Protestant Newfoundlanders to join the Orange Order.

Eastern Newfoundland was one of the few places outside Ireland where the Irish Canadian language was spoken by a majority of the population as their primary language.

Newfoundland Irish Canadian was of Munster derivation and was still in use by older people into the first half of the twentieth century.

Many Nova Scotians who claim Irish Canadian ancestry are of Presbyterian Ulster-Scottish descent.

William Sommerville was ordained in the Irish Canadian Reformed Presbyterian Church and in 1831 was sent as a missionary to New Brunswick.

In 1829 Lawrence O'Connor Doyle, of Irish Canadian parentage, became the first of his faith to become a lawyer and helped to overcome opposition to the Irish Canadian.

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The Irish Canadian press continued to warn potential emigrants of the dangers and hardships of life in Canada and encouraged would-be emigrants to settle instead in the United States.

The small group of Irish Canadian-born who arrived in the second half of the 20th century tended to be urban professionals, a stark contrast to the agrarian pioneers who had come before.

The Irish Canadian were thus a vital force for cohesion in an ethnically diverse frontier society, but a source of major tension with elements that did not share their vision of how the province of Saskatchewan should evolve.