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in 1819 a very active emigration from England, Scotland, and espe- 

 cially Ireland, began, and in that year some 7,000 immigrants, chiefly 

 from Ireland, reached St. John. It was not, of course, the efforts 

 of the New Brunswick Government alone which produced this 

 remarkable rcsiult, but it arose in large part from the failure of the 



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potato crop in Ireland, and other bail economic conditions in that 

 country. Once started, however, this sitream of immigration con- 

 tinued without cessation for some thirty years, varying, of course, from 

 year to year, but reaching its culmination from 1834 to 1843, in each 

 of which years from six to eight thousand immigrants (many of whom, 

 however, passed on to the United States) reached the province. 

 Unfortunately no stat'silics of immigration through these years have 

 been, so far as I can find, preserved; and we possess only isolated refer- 



