This is the time to reflect on the strength of the Irish immigrants who came to Canada, some with only a few dollars and the name of a “friend of a friend” as a contact in Toronto.

We want to hear your story. Maybe you arrived by ship or came by air — did you travel directly from Ireland to Toronto or did you come through the United States? Why did you decide to come to Canada and what were your hopes and dreams?

There are so many questions and so many variations of experiences in the stories of the Irish who came to Canada. This project seems bountiful both in the possibilities of interesting people to discover and the richness in which the Irish can tell their story.

With your approval we will arrange a mutually convenient time to interview and take photos of you, possibly with your family or friends. If there are photos of you when you arrived in Canada that you choose to share, we will scan them during our meeting. We would be most grateful for your participation. The only restriction is that you must have arrived between the years 1940 and 1999. The more stories, the better the read!

We hope that you will choose to share your personal account with us and become a part of our journal recording the stories of hundreds of Irish persons in Toronto. This project will be a dignified recounting of each individual with photos of them today and hopefully a few photos of when they left Ireland or arrived in Canada. Interviews will be conducted using a standardized questionnaire — you may choose to share what you want and hold back what you believe is personal.
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