HIS312H1 Lecture Notes - Histidine, The Famine, Racialization
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His311 lecture 5 oct 3 2011. >> ontario was the growth area of canada. >> hard to establish hard numbers as discussed before. >> brought and spread their own culture here. >> most tragic moment of the great migration. >> famine migration was an aberration of general immigration. >> very good secondary sources to which we base our understanding today. >> 1600s: england planted scottish presbyterians in northern ireland (ulster) >> 1700s: imposition of an anglo irish elite (church of ireland, i. e. anglican church) >> irish union: from 1801 part of the united kingdom. >> roman catholics without political rights until 1820s. >> poor could not afford to come to canada so ended up in glasgow, etc. >> most catholic irish immigrants went to the u. s. because it was not british. >> farm families had supplemented income by weaving cloth. >> automated and cheaper that home made wares. >> protestant irish who lived in the catholic districts felt.
