| Push Factors (In Ireland) | Pull Factors (Canada) |
| Many British owned land and subdivided their lots so that each lot was not large enough to support a family. The effects of this were, you had to sleep with livestock, tried to grow potatoes wherever they could. If you don’t pay rent you get kicked out, first they gave them an eviction notice and if you won’t leave they will tear down the house. The police were the ones who forced the people out of their house. If the people still wouldn’t leave they either tore down the house of lit it on fire to make sure they had nothing to go back to They also kicked people out to re make for livestock.
Eventually the potatoes became rotten and started the potato famine. Because of their property being so small they couldn’t grow anything on it so they had find a job to make money and buy food because, they could no longer survive off of potatoes. Irish poor law act creates workhouses for the poor. Eventually the peents had to pay rent in grain.
Charles Darwin thought that natural selection drives evolution. He thought all Irish, British, and Africans looked a certain way to benefit themselves and when species breed beyond resources, more favorable variations survive. (Monogenist)
Herbert spencer believed that the survival of the fittest applied to society It exists if we remove charity race that is used to determine colonialism. The race was to used to justify exploitation of the lower class. (Polygenist)
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To get to Canada they had to take a coffin ship. Many people in the coffin ship got sick and spread diseases. Going onto the ship there was a risk that you might die. On the coffin ship there were different levels for different class he Steerage was for the lower class and it wasn’t as nice compared to the upper class. Things were unsanitary and they had to put human waste in a bucket then throw it over board. Before going to Quebec they had to go to Grosse-ile to make sure you weren’t sick. A lot of people were sick so when they got there they died. Today there is a grave yard at the spot the Grosse-ile was located.
Many children whose parents died were adopted into French-Canadian families but their Irish names have lived on: Doyle, Murphy, Ryan, Johnson.
Religion was a struggles for the Irish. Quebec accepted the Irish Catholics into Quebec because they have the same religion. Outside of Quebec Irish Catholicism was frowned upon by the Protestant majority in other parts of Canada. And in Canada, citizenship was tied to the British Crown was tied to the British Crown. |
Find a quote/image that confirms any of the above
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Source: The British Whig, 5 February 1847. Title: The Canadian Press and the Great Irish Famine |
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That with the best-felt thanks to Almighty God for the mercies bestowed on us, the starving conditions of our fellow subjects on Ireland calls for our warmest sympathy and compassion; and that we endeavor with our humble tribute to alleviate their sufferings under the present calamity.
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| Interpretation: | People are feeling bad for the Irish and they want to help. Word got out about the potato famine and everyone is feeling bad. |
| How might this affect a character or a plot? | An Irish person is doing really bad on the farm and not making a lot of money. They are close to death and there last hope is the potatoes but when those too eventually die no hope is left. They hear about new beginning in Canada and start their journey to the new country. |
For the push factors, connect Darwin and Spencer to the idea of Social Darwinism and what that did to people’s perceptions in Britain.
Coffin ships aren’t part of the pull factor. Neither is Grosse Isle and how they were treated once they got here.
For the pull factors, you’ll have to think back to what I showed you. Remember the poem/song I showed you guys in class? Or the cartoon called “Here and There”? Or even what Robert Whyte describes about what the kids on the boat think about Canada.
This quote definitely confirms that the Potato Famine was occurring. But it doesn’t quite describe what was happening in Ireland, just how Canadians should feel and react. Therefore, this quote is better for #3. A quote for this part should be about the conditions in Ireland and you can even use images like I showed you of evictions or absentee landlords.