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Whenever they came, Irish settlers made an inestimable contribution to the building of the New World.

These settlers were instead put to work building railroads, coal mines, bridges, and canals. So when seemingly innumerable Irish immigrants arrived during the Great Potato Famine of the late 1840s, free land for all was out of the question. After this period, free land and an agrarian lifestyle were not so easy to come by in the East. Those that fought for the revolution occasionally gained the land that the fleeing Loyalist vacated. Lawrence River and the Niagara Peninsula. Such Loyalists were granted land along the St. Settlers that arrived before the American War of Independence may have moved north to Canada at the war's conclusion as United Empire Loyalists. The fate of these families depended on when they immigrated and the political allegiances they showed after they arrived.

A large portion of these families crossed the Atlantic to the shores of North America. In the 18th and 19th centuries, thousands of Irish families fled an Ireland that was forcibly held through by England through its imperialistic policies.