Dr. Mark McGowan is a professor of history and Celtic studies at the University of Toronto. He says the donations from Indigenous communities to the Irish migrants who were fleeing the 1847 famine, have gone virtually unnoticed in Canadian history.
Toronto researchers help uncover Ontario First Nations' donations to Irish Famine relief fundToronto sheltered 38,000 Irish famine victims in the summer of 1847. As CBC’s Talia Ricci reports, researchers have recently discovered archival records that reveal an important connection between Ontario First Nations and Ireland.Researchers say newly discovered archival records reveal an important connection between Ontario First Nations and Irish famine victims.
"At least 15 bands answered the call and requested that donations be deducted from their government annuities, added to the fund, and then sent to 'our suffering fellow subjects and Christian brethren in Ireland and Scotland,'' according to Mark McGowan's research. McGowan is a professor of history at the University of Toronto and has spent time going through the archival documents.
"We hadn't known all that much until a colleague and I stumbled upon an actual letter that petitioned these Indigenous peoples in the province of Ontario to help support their 'white brethren' who are starving and dying in Ireland and Scotland," said McGowan, adding that the task of going through these letters fell to him.
"But it was an act of kindness, and it was an act of honouring the treaties with our white brethren who were suffering in Ireland at the time."
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