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Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada

Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada

reland’s Great Famine produced Europe’s worst refugee crisis of the nineteenth century. More than 1.5 million people left Ireland, many ending up in Canada. Among the most vulnerable were nearly 1,700 orphaned children who now found themselves destitute in an unfamiliar place.

Mark G. McGowan

  • McGill-Queen's University Press
  • 9780228023005
  • 252 pages
  • €40.70
  • Paperback
  • Canada
  • History of the Americas