"This new, expanded edition of Irish Migrants in the Canadas traces the genealogies, movements, landholding strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Ir

Emigrant Worlds and Transatlantic Communities gives voice to the Irish, Scottish, English, and Welsh women and men who negotiated the complex and often dangerou

The first comprehensive account of the Irish settlers of Prince Edward Island.

Hailed as one of the most important books on social sciences of the last fifty years by the Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Akenson argues that, despite t

This collection brings together a wide array of writings on Canadian immigrant history, including many highly regarded, influential essays. Though most of the c