The McCabe List : Early Irish in the Ottawa Valley

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The McCabe List : Early Irish in the Ottawa Valley
Abstract
The McCabe List (named after the Belfast genealogist John McCabe, who discovered the document in the Public Record Office in Kew, England in the 1980s) was a petition signed by 673 men, the vast majority of them Irish, and many of them canal labourers working on the construction of the Rideau Canal. The petition was dated 5 February 1829, and was submitted to Lieutenant-Colonel John By, Superintending Engineer for the Rideau Canal, in the hope that he might “intercede with Government” to secure assistance for “[our] Relatives residing in that Country [Ireland] in impoverished circumstances, who would have long since emigrated to British America, had they been possessed of the means so to do.” The petitioners were asking for government assistance to help their impoverished relations in Ireland to immigrate to Canada. Nothing ever came of this request for emigration assistance.
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place
Toronto, ON
Publisher
Ontario Genealogical Society
Date
2002
# of Pages
82p.
Language
en
ISBN
0-7779-2124-3
Citation
Elliott, Bruce S., and DeAlton Owens. The McCabe List : Early Irish in the Ottawa Valley. Rev. ed. Toronto, ON: Ontario Genealogical Society, 2002.
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