Dear Stuart Keill, Thank you for contacting me. The Patrick Slater book is the same as John Mitchell's. He used a pseudonym for this publication so you are on the right track. You will be interested in Catherine Wilson's book, A NEW LEASE ON LIFE: LANDLORDS, TENANTS AND IMMIGRANTS IN IRELAND AND CANADA, published in 1994 by McGill-Queen's Press. It deals with Irish settlement on Amherst Island. In the index, I see a reference to Eliza Scott (Mrs. McMaster), so there is probably some relationship. Best wishes, Michael Kenneally -----Original Message----- From: Stuart Keill, MD [mailto:skeill@lords.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 06, 2005 2:53 PM To: CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Ontario Irish] 1911 Canadian census Dear Prof. Kenneally, . The note about your research project arrived yesterday. Since my 2 of my great grandparents, Francis and Mary (Scott) McMaster, emigrated from County Down in 1856 to settle on Amherst Island, the subject struck me. You referred to Slater's "The Yellow Briar" from the 1920s. I tried to find the book without success. I did find a novel "The Yellow Briar: a Story of the Irish in the Canadian Countryside" : by John Mitchell published in the thirties and reissued in 1940. Is this a coincidence or? In any case the local library has agreed to borrow a copy for me. Meanwhile good luck on your venture. I hope it will be published. Best regards. Stuart Keill -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kenneally [mailto:kenneal@vax2.concordia.ca] Sent: Monday, December 05, 2005 2:20 PM To: CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [Ontario Irish] 1911 Canadian census Dear Pat Connors, I would like to be permitted to send out a message on your listserv, if I may. I am doing research on the Irish in Canada, especially in Ontario, in the nineteenth and into the twentieth century. I am interested in two general areas: How Irish immigrants represented themselves and their experiences in diaries, memoirs, letters, autobiographies, travel writing and even biographies. How do they remember and write about Ireland, its landscape and people, and how they remember and write about the idea of home? How do they respond to the physical, social and political reality of Canada? How are the memories of Ireland compared with the realities of Canada? I am also interested in these same subjects but this time as written by others, by non-Irish writers, in the literary forms mentioned above but also in novels, short stories, plays, essays or poems. I would be extremely grateful for any information about the existence of these two general categories of texts from you subscribers. The texts can have been published or not; unpublished diaries, memoirs or letters would be particularly interesting. If any of your subscribers would like to contact me about their knowledge of such texts, I would be very grateful. For example, Patrick Slater's 1920's novel, THE YELLOW BRIAR: A Story of the Irish on the Canadian Countryside gives us fascinating insight in the experience of the Irish in the countryside of Ontario in the second half of the nineteenth century. The use of such texts and references to them would be appropriately recognized and acknowledged. I would welcome any comments or suggestions from your members. Yours sincerely, Professor Michael Kenneally Chair in Canadian Irish Studies Concordia University, Montreal ==== CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH Mailing List ==== Check out the ONTARIO IRISH webpage at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/OntarioIrish/ ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx ==== CAN-ONTARIO-IRISH Mailing List ==== Add your names to the Ontario Irish surname registry at: http://www.connorsgenealogy.com/OntarioIrish/surnames.htm ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx