EMIGRATION.
Canada a More Desirable Country than the United States

[ Back View of the Cabin at the Lucan Area Heritage and Donelly Museum, This cabin was moved to Lucan from Port Elgin, Ontario.  Though not identical to the Donnelly cabin, it is very similar.  Copyright Great Unsolved Canadian Mysteries Project, Jennifer Pettit,   ][...]Rev. Dr. Vaughan said that Canada was to be preferred to the United States because of the experience already gained. Thousands of Irish emigrants who had gone to the latter country had settled in New York haunts of poverty, misery and crime. He believed there was a splendid future in store for Catholics who went to the colonies planted in the Far West. [...]

Source: Unknown, "Emigration — Canada a More Desirable Country than the United States," London Free Press, September 23, 1881.

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