Irish Canadians

Irish Canadian are immigrants and descendants of immigrants who originated in Ireland. 1.2 million Irish immigrants arrived, 1825 to 1970, at least half of those in the period from 1831-1850. By 1867, they were the second largest ethnic group (after the French), and comprised 24% of Canada's population. The 1931 national census counted 1,230,000 Canadians of Irish descent, half of whom lived in Ontario. About one-third were Catholic in 1931 and two-thirds Protestants.

The Irish immigrants were largely Protestant before the famine years of the 1840s, when the Catholics arrived in large numbers. However, most Catholic Irish after 1850 usually headed to the U.S., England, Australia and Scotland.

Peter Robinson Settlers

In 1822, the British Government established a trial emigration scheme for Irish paupers to Upper Canada. There were two waves of emigration, one in 1823 the second in 1825. See Geni project Peter Robinson Settlers 1823-1825

• The 2006 census by Statistics Canada, Canada's Official Statistical office revealed that the Irish were the 4th largest ethnic group with 4,354,000 Canadians with full or partial Irish descent or 14% of the country's total population.This was a large and significant increase of 531,495 since the 2001 census, which counted 3,823,000 respondents quoting Irish ethnicity.

Projects on Geni

Peter Robinson Settlers 1823-1825

External links English

• The Irish Emigration of 1847 and its Canadian Consequences
• Migration, Arrival, and Settlement before the Great Famine
• The Jubilee Riots in Toronto, 1875
• Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
• Almost as bad as Ireland 1847

External links in French

• Fête de la Saint-Patrick. Les Irlandais du Québec : à la croisée de deux cultures

Sources

• The Untold Story The Irish in Canada