By Kelley O’Rourke Richard Ryan of Saint-Colomban, Lower Canada, represents one of the many forgotten connections between Quebec and the American Civil War. Born on March 4, 1838, to Irish immigrant parents John Ryan and Johanna Bourke (Burke) from County Tipperary,...
My great grandmother, Mary Agnes Dwyer Wallace, was the daughter of Michael Dwyer and Ann Elliott Dwyer. Both Michael (b. 28 September 1831)[1] and Ann (b. 14 July 1836)[2] were born in St. Colomban, Quebec, Canada, as was Mary Agnes (b. 8 July 1858)[3], and...
The Skelly family were part of the many Irish migrants who left Ireland to escape poverty in the early 19th century. The tragic circumstances of the rural Irish – like those who began to settle in St. Colomban in the 1820’s and the promise of a better life in the...
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