There are two aspects to the Irish emigration to Canada. What
the Irishman has done for Canada is the first The second, is not
less important, what Canada has done for the Irishman. Men have
come here who were unable to spell, who never tasted meat, who
never knew what it was to have a shoe to their foot in Ireland,
and they tell me they are masters of 1,000 or 2,000 or 3,000
acres as the case may be of the finest land in Canada. ...Irish
women were held in high esteem. The Irish ladies are such as
might naturally be expected, such as have stamped a high and
exalted character on the domestic economy of our country, and
have rendered her in this respect, the envy and admiration of
the world. In one year, 1831*, as many as 50,000 persons landed
at Quebec most of them being Irish. This large immigration soon
told, even in Lower Canada. Irish ancestors Michael and Mary
(McGovern) Powers moved from Ireland to Canada. Their son John
moved from Canada to Michigan. John Powers' grandson, Ralph
Newman Powers, married