HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Proletariat, Negrophobia, Underground Railroad
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1/3 catholic rural destinations orange and green famine immigration, 1846-1849 post-famine immigration, 1850-1865. Great conflict between the new people and the old. Ireland joins united kingdom, 1801 send mp to uk parliament, problem was english was not granted rights. Who? middling ranks, farmers, especially from north e4ast. From 1830, more agricultural laborers from all ireland . farmers came from northern east. Remittances (sent money home) and pre-paid tickets (purchased by. 2/3 are protestant. mainly protestant, though catholic minority large(minority in immigrant who came to canada, but majority in ireland) preferred u. s. Political, and social position settlement drawn to agricultural. The agro-forest economy of new brunswick and the ottawa valley: farming and lumbering combines (men went out to the woods, combination of working in the woods in the winter and wanting to own a farm) Daughter entered domestic services: usually working for neighbors, cooking, cleaning and looking after children. Hard work and improvement: a lifetime of work.
