Thanks! ... someone else mentioned that land prices in that area were depressed during that period of time, which could have also been attractive.
Rick SmollPH: (512) 619-3860 -----Original Message----- From: ECardwell <[email protected]> To: Rick Smoll <[email protected]>; Rick Smoll via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> Sent: Thu, Jan 7, 2021 10:25 am Subject: Re: [CoTyroneMailingList] Simcoe County, Ontario Yes, Simcoe County was a destination for Ulster emigrants in the late 19th and early 20th century. There were at least three or four inter-related families from the Pomeroy area in Tyrone who were livjng in the Orillia area of Simcoe county and I suspect from looking at a few of the earlier names, that they were from mid Tyrone as well. Evelyn Cardwell Get BlueMail for Android On 7 Jan 2021, at 15:50, Rick Smoll via CoTyroneList <[email protected]> wrote: This question goes out most specifically to Jim McKane since I understand he hails from the Toronto area, however anyone with knowledge of the answer should feel free to chime in. In tracing the paths of my ten great aunts and uncles who were the last generation to be born on our family farm in C.T., I have found that one of my great uncles emigrated to Canada (late 19-teens) and was a farmer in the area of Simcoe County. He married a woman who was from a neighboring townland back in C.T. who had also emigrated to the area. I am wondering if Simcoe County (or that region outside Toronto in general) was an area that attracted Ulstermen at that time, and perhaps an ethnic community had evolved. I also noticed that on his marriage certificate his religious affiliation was listed as Church of England, although he had been raised Methodist back in NI ... any comments on that? Thanks!! Rick Smoll Send a Message to the List - [email protected] List Archive - https://list.cotyroneireland.com/empathy/list/cotyronelist.list.cotyroneireland.com Join the list by sending an email to - [email protected] To receive the Digest version, send an email to - [email protected] Unsubscribe by sending an email to - [email protected]
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