actually some did when deboarding companies in canada would recruit them mining and such Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist using Genetics to connect Genealogy List owner of Irish-dna,Piscopo-l-Heslin-l,McHugh-l,Cogan-l-Machelsea-l,Ita-Frosinone-l,Mazzola-l-Duggan-l Project Manager of Chelsea Ma. Genetics Project,Denning&Variants Project-Farrell Genetics Project-The Cogan Project- the Duggan Project- County Longford Project-Frosinone Italy Project-Parramatta-Sydney Project- Hannibal MO-QuincyIL Project-Brighton-NewtonMA Project In a message dated 2/14/2009 6:06:59 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, reiley@usol.com writes: Re: the waterways, it is more likely an immigrant would travel from Canada to the US then the other way around. Far more transport occurred from the UK to Canada then from the UK to the US. Because of that passage was far less going to Canada. In fact, my family legend says some of my ancestors family came to the US via Canada from Ireland. 8>) Best, Dennis **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards. AOL Music takes you there. (http://music.aol.com/grammys?ncid=emlcntusmusi00000004)