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From: "Maureen Gallagher" <>
Subject: Re: [Montreal-Irish] Bedard Quarry, Caughnawaga, Lachine Canal/Irish Settlements - Quebec
Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2002 10:07:49 -0500
References: <B9E16063.1B6C%wolfango.defrancesco@tin.it> <002601c27db5$1dab18a0$24696bcf@colba> <002301c27dbf$825f3ba0$c70f530c@jimduffy> <006601c27dc3$d5dcb060$24696bcf@colba> <003601c27e3d$82ca5c40$ccdea33f@default>


http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/

http://www.islandnet.com/~jveinot/cghl/quebec.html

http://www.afhs.ab.ca/new.html try the 1881 Canadian census here by typing
in james hanratty.


Maureen

----- Original Message -----
From: Kathleen Emerson <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 27, 2002 11:50 PM
Subject: [Montreal-Irish] Bedard Quarry, Caughnawaga, Lachine Canal/Irish
Settlements - Quebec


> I'm researching my g-g-grandfather James Hanratty, who was listed
> as a farmer at Caughnawaga (Kahnawake Indian Reserve) in 1822
> when he got a deed of concession for a farm on Norton Creek in the
> siegnieory of Beauharnois (now Chateauguay County).
>
> There's a little history on the WWW that a group of 500 mostly
> Irish laborers, a few French and a few Indians, worked on the Lachine
> Canal ca 1818-1824 and that stone was taken from the quarry on the
> reserve for the canal. Can anyone suggest any further sources for
> research? I've written to the archives nationale, scoured the web,
checked
> the FHLC. The FHLC has a microfilm of the Catholic Church at Kahnawake
> (St. Francis) starting 1790, and also a book of history of Caughnawaga.
>
> I'd like to find out if the 500 Irish laborers were recruited in Ireland
> (maybe
> from a stone quarry area) to come to Quebec?
>
> I've been following the interesting discussion on Irish settlements.
Quite
> a few Irish (both Catholic and Protestant) settled in the siegniory of
> Beauharnois.
> There was an "Irish Concession" near Norton Creek and a settlement called
> New Erin or New Ireland. There was also a settlement of a couple of
hundred
> Catholic Scots. The Scots and Irish spoke Gaelic. When my
> Hanratty/Henretty
> ancestors went to Montana 75 years later, they still claimed "Irish" as
> their
> mother tongue.
>
> Kathleen.
>
>
>
>
>
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