Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures and Tables ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Canada Calls to Ireland xvii
6. Introduction 1
7. 1 Shipwrecks and Society: Press Reports of the Irish Emigrant Passage to Canada, 1845–55 55
8. 2 Via the Port and into the City: The Irish Famine Migration to Quebec in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 73
9. 3 Saving Ireland from Famine: Canada’s Role in 1847 111
10. 4 Catholic Orphans in Protestant Towns: The Churches and the Irish Famine Orphans in British North America, 1847–48 144
11. 5 Stephen De Vere’s “Political Lesson”: A Case Study of Famine Irish Emigration, Settlement, and Political and Social Unrest 164
12. 6 Encountering a Ravaged People in the Modern City: The Impact of the Irish Famine Migration on Montreal’s Urban Landscape 190
13. 7 Making Space for the Irish: Toronto Before and After the 1847 Migration 217
14. 8 Madness in the Season of Famine and Distress: Famine Migration, Irish Insanity, and Toronto’s Provincial Lunatic Asylum, 1841–48 251
15. 9 “Mournful fragments of … the Irish Exodus”? Literary Representations of Irish Canadian Famine Immigration in the Periodical Press 272
16. 10 “A Most Historically Gruesome Ground”: The Burial and Commemoration of Famine Irish in Hamilton, 1847–1927 292
17. Contributors 325
18. Index 329