A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection, Canada and the Great Irish Famine examines how Ireland's famine migration was confronted, experienced, and remembered in a receiving country.
A comprehensive and groundbreaking collection, Canada and the Great Irish Famine examines how Ireland's famine migration was confronted, experienced, and remembered in a receiving country.
William Jenkins is associate professor of history at York University and the current president of the Canadian Association for Irish Studies. He is the author of Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, 1867–1916.
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Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Canada Calls to Ireland xvii Introduction: “A Calamity to the Province” 3 William Jenkins 1 Shipwrecks and Society: Press Reports of the Irish Emigrant Passage to Canada, 1845–55 55 Cian T. McMahon 2 Via the Port and into the City: The Irish Famine Migration to Quebec in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 73 Robert J. Grace 3 Saving Ireland from Famine: Canada’s Role in 1847 111 Christine Kinealy 4 Catholic Orphans in Protestant Towns: The Churches and the Irish Famine Orphans in British North America, 1847–48 144 Mark G. McGowan 5 Stephen De Vere’s “Political Lesson”: A Case Study of Famine Irish Emigration, Settlement, and Political and Social Unrest 164 Jason King 6 Encountering a Ravaged People in the Modern City: The Impact of the Irish Famine Migration on Montreal’s Urban Landscape 190 Dan Horner 7 Making Space for the Irish: Toronto before and after the 1847 Migration 217 William Jenkins 8 Madness in the Season of Famine and Distress: Famine Migration, Irish Insanity, and Toronto’s Provincial Lunatic Asylum, 1841–48 251 Max Smith 9 “Mournful fragments of … the Irish Exodus”? Literary Representations of Irish Canadian Famine Immigration in the Periodical Press 272 Marguérite Corporaal 10 “A Most Historically Gruesome Ground”: The Burial and Commemoration of Famine Irish in Hamilton, 1847–1927 292 Laura J. Smith Contributors 325 Index 329
Figures and Tables ix Acknowledgments xiii Canada Calls to Ireland xvii Introduction: “A Calamity to the Province” 3 William Jenkins 1 Shipwrecks and Society: Press Reports of the Irish Emigrant Passage to Canada, 1845–55 55 Cian T. McMahon 2 Via the Port and into the City: The Irish Famine Migration to Quebec in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 73 Robert J. Grace 3 Saving Ireland from Famine: Canada’s Role in 1847 111 Christine Kinealy 4 Catholic Orphans in Protestant Towns: The Churches and the Irish Famine Orphans in British North America, 1847–48 144 Mark G. McGowan 5 Stephen De Vere’s “Political Lesson”: A Case Study of Famine Irish Emigration, Settlement, and Political and Social Unrest 164 Jason King 6 Encountering a Ravaged People in the Modern City: The Impact of the Irish Famine Migration on Montreal’s Urban Landscape 190 Dan Horner 7 Making Space for the Irish: Toronto before and after the 1847 Migration 217 William Jenkins 8 Madness in the Season of Famine and Distress: Famine Migration, Irish Insanity, and Toronto’s Provincial Lunatic Asylum, 1841–48 251 Max Smith 9 “Mournful fragments of … the Irish Exodus”? Literary Representations of Irish Canadian Famine Immigration in the Periodical Press 272 Marguérite Corporaal 10 “A Most Historically Gruesome Ground”: The Burial and Commemoration of Famine Irish in Hamilton, 1847–1927 292 Laura J. Smith Contributors 325 Index 329
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