The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History, Second Edition

by Donald Harman Akenson

Book Overview

Akenson argues that, despite the popular conception of the Irish as a city people, those who settled in Ontario were primarily rural and small-town dwellers. Though it is often claimed that the experience of the Irish in their homeland precluded their successful settlement on the frontier in North America, Akenson's research proves that the Irish migrants to Ontario not only chose to live chiefly in the hinterlands, but that they did so with marked...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0773520295
• ISBN13: 9780773520295
• Release Date: June 1999
• Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 5.8" x 9.0"