O’Hare-Schubert Family // Fort Armstrong, B.C.

Contributed by Sherrilyn JahrigEARLY YEARS Catherine O’Hare was the youngest of nine children in a family of flax-weavers living near Rathfriland, County Down, Ireland. As a young girl she survived the potato famine, then an attempted kidnapping, and carried on as a...

McConnell Family // Nova Scotia & Toronto, Ontario

Contributed by Brian McConnellThree of the McConnell family arrived in Canada from Monaghan town, County Monaghan in the 1920s. Two sisters, Margaret and Rachel, and a brother William Arnold settled in Toronto. In Monaghan town their parents William and Sara McConnell...

Eugene McCann // Toronto, Ontario

Contributed by Eugene McCannDuring the summer of 1991 I encountered a lost looking tourist in Amsterdam and helped him on his way. Some weeks later in Groningen, I met the same man, again on his bicycle and struggling with a map. We took the time to introduce...

John Toohey // Montreal, Quebec

Contributed by John Toohey from his collectionGhosts of Griffintown: Irish Boxing in CanadaWhen boxer Jimmy McLarnin was a contender in the 1920s, journalists couldn’t agree as to where he came from; some claimed he was born in Belfast, others in Dublin. All agreed...

Hurley Family // Vancouver, B.C.

Contributed by Michael HurleyMichael, born 1958 in Magherafelt, County Derry, grew up five miles away in the Parish of Lavey. His three brothers and three surviving sisters still all live within 20 miles of the family homestead in Counties Derry and Antrim. In his...