North America's Maritime Funnel: The Ships That Brought the Irish, 1749-1852

Between 1659 and 1852, the Canadian provinces of New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, and Prince Edward Island served as a "funnel" for Irish immigration to North America due to the availability of timber vessels and relatively low fares. This volume serves as a research resource into the Irish immigration travelling through this funnel by offering a year-by-year listing of known voyages between an Irish port and a harbor in the aforementioned maritime provinces of Canada. Footnotes provide information on the availability of passenger lists. Additional contextual materials address the demographic crisis that precipitated Irish migration, the geography of the migration experience, and the challenges of interpreting passenger lists. Five appendixes offer additional information on Irish immigration to the region through other primary sources. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)