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Toronto, the Belfast of Canada explores the intolerant origins of today’s cosmopolitan city.

In mid-19th century Canada, the Irish outnumbered the English and Scots two to one. Yet their different experience have been much less studied than their US counterparts. The authors evaluate both emigration and settlement and present as well revealing personal documents about intense, often painful experiences of the settlers.

Here is the story of the rise, spread, and fall of the Orange Order in Canada. The Saha Canada Wore explains how this immigrant, ethnic ideology, widely known for its Protestant Irishness, opposition to Roman Catholics, and loyalty to the British royal family, managed to become so dominant.