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Rideau Canal Waterway - Memorials
The largest "ethnic" component of the workforce were immigrant Irish labourers, followed by the French Canadian labourers. These pick/shovel and axe workers numbered from about 1500 to 2500 ... , during the construction of the Rideau Canal. From 1826 to 1832, they were mostly Irish labourers and the children of pioneer settlers. Their graves were marked only by simple fieldstones, ...
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Pirate Utopias (Do or Die)
There were thousands of deported Irish, Liverpool beggars, Royalist prisoners from Scotland, pirates caught on the English high seas, highwaymen ... shipping, but had been phased out as shipping became a capitalist enterprise and sailors wage labourers. It still existed in privateering and whaling but pirates developed it into its most ...
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Burren Action Group - Funding Page
National Trust for Ireland), the Heritage Council, the Irish Wildlife Federation, Birdwatch Ireland, Friends of the Irish Environment, Irish Peatland Conservation Council etc., by other NGO ...
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Rideau Canal Waterway - Articles and Poems
Rideau. It is about those who built the Rideau, the thousands of Irish and French Canadian labourers. Water, Water Everywhere by Ken Watson, 2002. This article appeared in Rideau Reflections ...
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GULF OF GUINEA CONSERVATION GROUP
Johnson. One wonders how the Portuguese landowners and administrators, as well as the African contract labourers on the plantations, regarded these relatively educated, English-speaking Africans at a time when Portugal ... adequately our gratitude to the only Englishman - or rather Irishman, if that be not too Irish - in São Tomé at the time of our visit. Mr. Cauvin spared nothing in his ...
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The KICKING HORSE RIVER "Great Canadian Rivers"
John Palliser, leader of the expedition was himself a well-to-do Irish landowner, experienced buffalo hunter, continental traveler and gentleman adventurer. Just as the Hudson's Bay ... route through the Rocky Mountains was a terrifying and treacherous assignment for the thousands of labourers charged with the task of building a railway through terrain suited more to mountain goats ...
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