Lucille H. Campey - Atlantic Canadas Irish Immigrants: A Fish and Timber Story

Copyright 2016 Lucille H. Campey

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Editor: Allison Hirst

Design: Laura Boyle

Cover design: Courtney Horner

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Front cover image: Halifax Harbour at Sunset , circa 1853. Oil painting by John OBrien, 183191. Courtesy of the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia. Gift of the Halifax Chamber of Commerce, 2007.

Back cover image: View of the port of Londonderry from an original sketch by John Nixon, circa 1790.

Reproduced courtesy of the National Library of Ireland ET B38.

Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication

Campey, Lucille H., author

Atlantic Canadas Irish immigrants : a fish and timber story / Lucille H. Campey.

(The Irish in Canada)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Issued in print and electronic formats.

ISBN 978-1-4597-3023-6 (paperback).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3024-3 (pdf).--ISBN 978-1-4597-3025-0 (epub)

1. Irish--Atlantic Provinces--History. 2. Immigrants--Atlantic Provinces--History. 3. Fisheries--Atlantic Provinces--History. 4. Lumber trade--Atlantic Provinces--History. 5. Atlantic Provinces--Emigration and

immigration--History. 6. Ireland--Emigration and immigration--History. I. Title. II. Series: Campey, Lucille H. Irish in Canada.

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To Geoff

Irish Passengers Who Sailed from Waterford to St. Johns, 62 Newfoundland, between 1809 and 1816 Without Paying Their Fares

2Passenger List: Crossing of Thomas Farrall , Captain Thomas 66 Barry, from New Ross to St. Johns, Newfoundland, May 1825

3Boat Owners in Placentia Employed by Pierce Sweetman 68 in June 1789

4Partial Passenger List: Crossing of the Dorcas Savage , 102 Captain Pollock, from Portaferry to St. Andrews, April 1818

5Irish Immigrants Residing at the Teetotal (Later Cork) 115 Settlement in New Brunswick, 1843

6New Brunswick Locations of Ninety-Four Sligo Settlers 163 in 1851

7New Brunswick Locations of Seventy-Seven County 164 Wicklow Settlers in 1851

8Irish Immigrant Arrivals at Maritime Ports During the 165 Famine Years (184550)

9Ships Carrying Passengers from Waterford to Halifax, 168 Saint John (NB), and St. Johns (NFLD), 184550

10Frequent Passenger Carriers: Passengers Carried and 180 Ship Quality

11Selected Vessels Carrying Two Hundred or More 190 Passengers, 181746

12Selected Vessels Carrying Fifty or More Passengers, 196 184650

I am indebted to a great many people. First, I wish to gratefully thank the Foundation for Canadian Studies in the U.K. for their grant, which I used toward my research and travel costs.

I would like to begin by thanking the archivists and librarians in Canada and Ireland who have helped me in locating material. In particular, I wish to thank Janice Cook at the New Brunswick Archives for the trouble she took in digging out very wide-ranging sources for me to study during my visit. I also owe a special thanks to Debby Andrews at the Centre for Newfoundland Studies, Memorial University, St. Johns, who located obscure sources that I could not have found on my own. I also thank John Boylan at the Public Archives of Prince Edward Island for his assistance.

I am grateful to the many people who helped me to locate and obtain illustrations. In particular, I thank the historian Harold E. Wright, who lives in Saint John, for his permission to use photographs from his extensive collection. An expert on Partridge Islands history, Harolds help was invaluable to me in piecing together how the quarantine facilities operated during the Great Irish Famine. I also thank the president of the Miramichi Branch of the New Brunswick Genealogical Society for his help in tracking down a photograph of Dr. John Vondy, who died treating immigrants during the famine period. I am also grateful to Joshua Green of the Provincial Archives of New Brunswick, who went to a lot of trouble to locate the New Brunswick illustrations used in this book.

The writing of this book has depended on the help and forbearance of my husband, Geoff. We are a team, and without him this and my other books would never have been written. He produces the tables, maps, and appendices, locates the illustrations, helps with the research, and guides me through my rough patches. I am also greatly indebted to Allison Hirst for her meticulous labour in turning my manuscript into a book and I thank my longstanding friend, Jean Lucas, who continues to proofread my work and offer guidance.

This book is dedicated to Geoff, with all my love.

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