Introduction
The average life of an Irishman and his family.
Jack McGregor has a wife Abigail McGregor and 2 kids. His two kids are boys. One son is Connor a healthy 15 years and his other son Brian. He is 22 years old and also healthy. He was living in Galway, Ireland with his family. His wife Abigail most of the part stayed home and took care of the kids and prepared food and clothes. They work on their 6 acre farm with 4 acres of potatoes crops and then 2 acres of cash crop which was wheat. They have been living on their farm for about 7 years and have been lucky enough to pay off the rent that long, but the last few months they have been falling behind on his land rent. After a few days a man came to their house telling them that they have till sundown to get out. Now the absentee landlord has kicked them out of their house. After leaving their home they are now challenged with finding a new home in the new land.
Rising action
- Connor and his family decided to leave Ireland to Canada after getting kicked off the land by the absentee land lords. He and his family traveled to Canada via coffin ship. When they were boarding it was sort of a mixture of higher class and lower class. All of the higher class people were wearing beaver hats which they got from the fur trade. The ship was called the “Coffin Ship” because mostly everyone who was on that ship got sea sick, got dehydration, Cholera, Dysentery and died. Most say it was a horrifying trip to take. So as they were on the coffin ship, they met two people and one got sick and other got stabbed by their master. But again since they were one the coffin ship they started to feel sick and dehydrated. But they arrived to Canada safely.
- Next since they were a little short on money they wanted to get jobs in the fur trade. So they did end up getting jobs in the fur trade. So about two or three years after in the fur trade they finally made enough money, they paid off their debt to the landlords. Then after built a house and they started to live a lot better than they once were. Before they came to Canada. But even though they thought everything was a lot better they was still such in Catholic’s versus Protestants where anyone who came over from Ireland they would treat them differently than Canadian people. But if going to be accepted they would have to go to Quebec not Ontario. Because they would have been treated like slaves there.
Climax
When they came to Canada living in Ontario they started to realize that it wasn’t what they hope it to be and it was very racist because anyone who came over from Ireland to Canada would be treated differently. But Quebec that’s where they needed to go because there everyone was treated the same no matter what or where they come from, so some how they had to get from Ontario to Quebec. So then they left their land and house only took what they could carry. So now there ultimate goal was to somehow get to Quebec get some land and start over. The main reason why they were leaving Ontario in the first place was because the slavery was really bad there and that they weren’t getting treated as fair as the others. So they wanted forget everything they did in Ontario and go to Quebec that was there mission now.
Falling Action:
The McGregor family underwent a lot of scrutiny from the general public for their Irish Heritage. The family’s only goal was to save up enough money to pay off the Canadian landlords and start a new life in Quebec where they will be properly accepted. Throughout Jacks travels he ends up meeting a fellow fur trader named Edward and his Native American wife, who is a crucial guide within the hard to traverse wilderness of Canada, and through the experienced fur trader (Edward) Jack finds out about the most reliable colonies within which to do trading in to receive the most profit in return. Edwards’s reliable trading secrets, which he offers to share with Jack as a token of good friendship and to show him that not all North Americans believe In Darwin’s “Survival of the Fittest” theory, it helps Jack pay of the Landlords and have enough money to start a new life in Quebec.
Conclusion:
It’s been 9 years since the McGregor family left Ontario to start a new life in Quebec. Both Connor and Brian are much older now, and both have a hand in the fur trade, as Connor works as a courier between several different Native American colonies and Brian married a Native American women named Aiyana. The pair of them help disperse goods and make high value trades. Jack finally found peace with the fact that he brought his children to a better world where they can have a new life and prosper and Jack ends up contracting polio and passing away, leaving his wife in the care of his sons but he dies peacefully knowing that he finally made it home.