Would someone please share why so many people from County Monaghan immigrated to the Ontario area? I'm sure there is a simple reason, but I'm still working on getting multiple lines back to the time they arrived in the U.S. Mary Lou Ferguson

In answer to the question of why so many people emigrated from Monaghan to Ontario, I can suggest one simple and obvious reason. This suggestion is based on my reading of several recent books on Irish immigration patterns in Ontario. Often, following the successful emigration of Irish settlers to a particular area, letters home would result in others (family or friends) following. Pat

There's also a book on this particular subject: Flight From Famine, The Coming of the Irish to Canada by Donald MacKay (McClelland & Stewart, Toronto, Ontario, 1990. Also, here are some extracts from papers relative to Emigration of Irish to British provinces in North America: http://www.ist.uwaterloo.ca/~marj/genealogy/reports/report1846.html Mlouferg@aol.com wrote: > Would someone please share why so many people from County Monaghan immigrated > to the Ontario area? I'm sure there is a simple reason, but I'm still > working on getting multiple lines back to the time they arrived in the U.S. > Mary Lou Ferguson