34 Facts About Irish Canadians

Irish Canadians are Canadian citizens who have full or partial Irish heritage including descendants who trace their ancestry to immigrants who originated in Ireland.

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

Irish Canadians comprise a subgroup of British Canadians which is a further subgroup of European Canadians.

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

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

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

Irish Canadians was instrumental in enshrining educational rights for Catholics as a minority group in the Canadian Constitution.

Irish Canadians'storians are not sure who the murderer was, or what his motivations were.

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

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

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

Irish Canadians contended that the numerical dominance of Protestants within the national group and the rural basis of the Irish community negated the formation of urban ghettos and allowed for a relative ease in social mobility.

Irish Canadians says that in the ghettos of Toronto the fusion of an Irish peasant culture with traditional Catholism produced a new, urban, ethno-religious vehicle – Irish Tridentine Catholism.

Irish Canadians opposed the French Canadian Catholics, especially by opposing bilingual education.

French Irish Canadians did not participate in Fallon's efforts to support the war effort and became more marginalized in Ontario politics and society.

The early Irish Canadians 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 Canadians migrants, changing the nature and character of both municipalities.

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

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

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

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

Newfoundland Irish Canadians 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 Canadians ancestry are of Presbyterian Ulster-Scottish descent.

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

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

Irish Canadians'sppard looks at the efforts in the 1880s of Quaker philanthropist James Hack Tuke as well as those of Thomas Connolly, the Irish emigration agent for the Canadian government.

The Irish Canadians 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 Canadians-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 Canadians 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.