Including a new preface by the author, Irish Migrants in the Canadas
probes beyond the aggregate statistics of most studies of the migration
process. Bruce Elliott traces the genealogies, movements, landholding
strategies, and economic lives of 775 families of Irish immigrants who
came to Canada between 1815 and 1855 from County Tipperary, Ireland. He
follows his subjects not only from Ireland to Canada but in their
subsequent movements within North America. His work has important
implications for current discussions of nineteenth-century society in
Ireland, Canada, and the United States.