Sheen Township and the Agro-Forest Economy, 1830-1900

The author examines the relationship between lumbering and farming in Sheenboro during the settlement of the municipality. Sheenboro is on the Schyan River, a tributary of Ottawa River, in Pontiac County In the 1830s, Irish immigrants appear in Sheenboro, and the author puts forth that lumbering in the Upper Ottawa River and its tributaries drew the Irish who came by kin or chain migration. John Downey, who had emigrated by 1825 from Downpatrick, County Down, Ireland, was the first to obtain title to his land in Sheenboro. By 1851, three-quarters of the settlers in Sheenboro were Irish, the remainder Scottish and French-Canadian. Sheenboro families worked their farms, and the men would work in the lumber camps from late fall to the spring.

Master's Research Essay

Carleton University

Ottawa, ON

1993

viii-137p.

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