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Irish Immigration to Canada

            The Irish started moving to North America after the end of the major European wars in the 1820s, when the absence of employment and poverty forced them to look for better opportunities somewhere else. The investment in Irish agriculture has decreased when the Europeans at last quit relying on the Irish for support during war and unemployment was the result. A horrible sickness struck the potato crops in the years of 1845 and 1847. The disease left section after section of land of Irish farmland covered with black rot and caused the cost of food to rise quickly. People who were desperate for food ended up consuming the spoiled potatoes only to develop and spread horrible diseases. The absence of food and increased death forced individuals to leave Ireland in large numbers for some place which offered more suitable living conditions. .
             Many people believe that the time "when the Irish came to Canada" was during the time of the Irish Famine in 1847 yet an estimated 475,000 Irish arrived in Canada before then. The Irish economy had been declining while the population was increasing. Emigrants were generally from Ireland's Northern provinces like Ulster, north Connaught and north Leinster. They were the middle class and could barely afford the cost of the voyage over to another country for a brighter future. A large portion of the newcomers avoided Newfoundland and Halifax, and went straight to New Brunswick, Québec and Ontario. .
             The Great Irish Famine of 1846 to 1852 was a genuinely horrific human disaster. The Irish starved and hoped for a miracle as the potato crops were destroyed. Resettlement was the best option as poorhouses were overfilled, soup kitchens couldn't feed the hungry, several thousands died, orphans wandered motherless, and then cholera and typhus pulled the half-living into the mass graves. Many thousands came to Canada. These Famine foreigners were the poorest of Ireland's poor, not able to purchase enough food to sustain themselves on the voyage over.


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