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 | | Rather, they were experienced farmers and skilled tradesmen seeking refuge from religious discrimination against Catholics, striving for better opportunities in agriculture after crop failures in the 1820s, and seeking to realize their emerging middle class values of individualism, dignity, human rights and freedoms, and belief in progress. |
 | | Irish immigration to Prince Edward Island occurred in three waves 17671810 saw the Colonial Pioneers; 18101830, the Southeastern Immigrants (from Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, and Tipperary); and, in 18301850 came the Monaghan Settlers (but also emigrants from Armagh and Tyrone). |
 | | Upon arriving on the Island, the Irish settled primarily in the communities of Fort Augustus, Vernon River, St. Marys Road, Hope River, Kellys Cross, Emyvale, Kinkora, Foxley River, and Burton. |
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