Irish Quebec (French: Irlando-QuÃÆ'Â © bÃÆ'Â © cois ) is a resident of the Canadian province of Quebec that has an Irish descent. In 2006, there were 406,085 Quebecers who identified themselves as Irish ancestry partially or exclusively in Quebec, representing 5.5% of the population.
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Demographics
In 2006, there were 406,085 Quebecians who identified themselves as Irish representing 5.5% of the population. This is an increase from the 1996 count of 313,660. They are spread more or less uniform across the province.
In the Montreal area, there are 161,235 people who claim the Irish heritage; about 78,175 (48.5%) of them speak English. Irish culture and community organizations are mostly kept alive by English speaking populations such as the Irish Community of England in Montreal. Many others have been assimilated into the French-speaking majority population.
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Saint Patrick's Day Parade
The longest Saint Patrick's Day Parade in Canada is held annually in Montreal, Quebec. The parade has been held since 1824 and has been hosted by the British Irish Community in Montreal since 1929. However, St. Patrick himself has been celebrated in Montreal as far back as 1759 by Irish troops at Montreal Garrison during the conquest of the New French England.
History
New French (1608-1763)
In the seventeenth century, Irish people living in France were among those sent to colonize the Saint Lawrence Valley in New France. After the Reformation, Irish Catholic nobles, soldiers, and priests will serve Catholic Kings in France, Spain and the Low Countries. Nearly 35,000 Irish people served in the French military in the seventeenth century. In 1700 there were roughly a hundred Irish-born families among the 2,500 families enrolled in New France, along with an additional thirty families with mixed Irish and French backgrounds. Only 10 colonies arrived from Ireland directly. At the beginning of the 18th century, many Irish Catholics arrived from New England trying to practice their religion more freely. During the Seven Years War, the French authorities also encouraged desertion among the Irish serving in the British army in North America. In 1757, Governor Pierre Rigaud de Vaudreuil appointed an Irish company of deserters and prisoners of war who had served with the British enemy forces; the company returned to France after the war. Most of the Irish soldiers, settlers, and deserters are assimilated into French-Canadian society.
Lower Canadian (early 1800s)
Overpopulation and inclosure movements in Ireland along with commercial shipping routes between Quebec City and the ports of Dublin and Liverpool prompted a large wave of Irish emigration to the Lower Canada beginning in 1815. Most of these emigrants will come to cities in the Lower Canada, building the Irish community in Montreal (1817) and Quebec City (1819). In Quebec, most of the Irish Catholics settled near the harbor in the Lower Town working in the shipyards and on the dock. By 1830, they constituted 7,000 of the 32,000 inhabitants. The Montreal population is more temporary, interested in working on major construction projects such as the Lachine Canal before moving to Upper Canada and the United States. In 1825, Irish Catholics and Protestants constituted about 3,000 people out of a total urban population of 25,000 and nearly the same number. Irish Catholics form a different neighborhood in the western part of town and then in Griffintown near the Lachine Canal. Irish Catholic settlers also opened new agricultural areas in the recently surveyed East Town Town, the Ottawa valley, and Gatineau and Pontiac districts. Ireland from Quebec will also settle in communities such as Frampton, Saint Sylvestre, and Saint Patrick in the Beauce region in southeastern Quebec.
Ireland became heavily involved in political life and newspaper publishing in Montreal. Many Irish leaders were involved in Parti Canadien, the Saint-Jean-Baptiste Society, and other French Canadian patriotic groups involved in the Lower Canadian Rebellion in 1837-1838. The Saint Patrick's Society of Montrà © al was founded in 1834 as an Irish patriotic organization with a political motive to counter the republican sentiments, with both Catholic and Protestant members sharing loyalty values ​​to the British Empire. The community vigorously defended the colonial government during the rebellion. The Great Irish Famine and Confederation (1840s and 1870s)/h3>
Eastern Canada saw a substantial increase in immigration from Ireland during the Great Irish Famine (1845-1849). In 1847 alone, nearly 100 000 arrived at Grosse Isle, an island in present-day Quebec where the immigration station was admitted. Thousands of people died or hospitalized (equipped with fewer than a hundred patients); In fact, many ships that reached Grosse-ÃÆ'ŽŽle had lost most of its passengers and crew, and many more died in quarantine on or near the island. From Grosse-ÃÆ'Žle, most survivors were sent to Montreal. In 1909, the Celtic cross was erected on the island to commemorate the tragedy. Orphaned children are adopted into the Quebec family and thus become Quà ©  © bÃÆ' © cois, both linguistically and culturally. Some of these children are fighting for their right to defend their Irish surnames, and most succeed.
In the 1840s and 1850s, Irish immigrants worked at the Victoria Bridge, living in a tent city at the foot of the bridge (see Goose Village, Montreal). Here, the workers dug up a mass grave of 6,000 Irish immigrants who died in previous episodes of typhoid. Irish stone remains at the entrance of the bridge to commemorate the tragedy. The Irish will continue to stay permanently in a working-class neighborhood near Pointe-Saint-Charles and Griffintown, working in flour mills, factories, and sugar refineries nearby.
Famine undermines the Irish Catholic attitude towards British and Irish Protestants. Catholics will struggle to maintain a different identity from both Protestant Quebec and the Canadian Catholic population of France. With the help of Catholic Irish Quebec
A church led by priests such as Father Patrick Dowd, they will set up their own church, school, and hospital. St. Basilica Patrick was founded in 1847 and serves Montreal-speaking Catholic English for more than a century. Saint Patrick's Society will be revived as a Catholic organization in 1856. Different British Catholic schools, affiliated with the French Catholic school board, developed in the 1840s and 1850s.
Famine also radicalized some of the inhabitants of Ireland. The Fenian Movement in Ireland and the United States tried to overthrow the British government in Ireland. The Fenian Brotherhood in the United States organized raids on the border into Canada in an attempt to seize control of the British colonies. Irish Protestants used the Orange Order to demand British rule in Ireland and Canada, and supported the anti-Catholic view. D'Arcy McGee, an Irish Montrealer who serves as Cabinet Minister in the Great Coalition Government, strongly opposes the Order of Orange and Fenians. He worked as Cabinet Minister in the government of the Great Coalition to ensure that the rights of Catholics were protected in the new Confederation of provinces in England of North America in 1867. As a result, the Catholic school board became incorporated in the Canadian Constitution in 1867. They were removed and merged with schools Protestant schools into the British school board after amendments to the Constitution in 2001. McGee was assassinated by the Fenians as a traitor in 1868.
Post-Confederation and modern Quebec
The English language of Irish Catholic institutions continued to flourish in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Loyola College (Montreal) was founded by the Jesuits to serve the English Catholic community in Montreal in 1896. Saint Mary's Hospital was founded in 1920 and continues to serve the Montreal-speaking population of today.
One of Ireland's greatest influences and still owned by their new comrades is in music. Quebec Music has adopted, and customized, Irish scrolls as their own.
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