Famine Migration to British North America (Canada) I Thursday 16 February I Prof. Mark McGowan, University of Toronto.

An award winning author, Mark is specialist in the religious, social, and communications history of Canada. His book, Death or Canada: The Great Famine Migration and Toronto, 1847 (2009) won him the 2010 Heritage Toronto Award. It tells a story that is still relatively unknown to most and delves beneath the surface of statistics and brings to light the stories of men and women who had to face a desperate choice: almost certain death from starvation in Ireland, or a perilous sea voyage to a faraway place called Canada.

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