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From: Ted McConnell <>
Subject: Canada - Ports of Entry for SI
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 1998 20:57:51 -0300

The greatest number of SI arrived in Canada at Quebec City, although
others did come by Saint John (in New Brunswick), Halifax (in Nova
Scotia) and St. John's (in Newfoundland).

For a solid historical overview I suggest "Irish Emigration and Canadian
Settlement" by Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth, published by
University of Toronto Press and the Ulster Historical Foundation, 1990,
ISBN 0-8020-5829-9

The book reveals among other things that in mid-nineteenth-century
Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one.

The backface of the back contains this interesting extract from a letter
by Alexander Robb in Nicola, British Columbia, writing to his father in
County Down, Ireland in 1873:

"You asked me, my Dear father, whether I ever think of home! If you had
been as many years as I have been away from home you would not have
thought it necessary to ask the question. Since the day I left
Dundonald until now, there has never one day or scarcely a hour passed
but I have thought of home and the dear ones who live there. Situated
as I am in a wild country, with nothing but mere acquaintances around
me, is it not natural that my thoughts should continually revert to
those places where I was once so happy and that my heart should cling to
the people whom I love and who I believe love me perhaps much better
than I deserve..."

Cheers,

Ted (Brian) McConnell

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