Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada

By Donald Mackay

Book Overview

One of Canada's founding peoples, the Irish arrived in the Newfoundland fishing stations as early as the seventeenth century. By the eighteenth century they were establishing farms and settlements... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0771054459
• ISBN13: 9780771054457
• Release Date: April 1991
• Publisher: McClelland & Stewart
• Length: 368 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"

Customer Reviews

An intriguing and comprehensive history

America was not the only place Europeans looked to for salvation from the problems of the Old World. "Flight from Famine: The Coming of the Irish to Canada" tells the story of the Irish who came to the America's northern neighbor when the infamous potato famine wreaked havoc and starvation upon Ireland's population. An intriguing and comprehensive history, "Flight From Famine" is highly recommended for scholarly collections.