Robert Whyte's Famine Ship Diary 1847: The Journey of an Irish Coffin Ship - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1856350916 ISBN 13: 9781856350914

Publisher: Mercier Press, 1994

Synopsis

The voyage of the 'coffin ship' Ajax, from Dublin to Grosse Īle, the Canadian quarantine station as described in the contemporary diary of one of the passengers, Robert Whyte. Whyte was a Protestant gentleman of education and position, as well as being a professional writer who intended to publish his diary. The diary appeared in 1848. It is signed in the author's own handwriting and features vivid descriptions of the spectacular scenery along the way and the striking delineations of the passengers, the crew and the suffering travellers.

About this title

About the Author:

Brother James Mangan, a distant relative of James Clarence Mangan, was born on July 26, 1907 at Admaston, Ontario. His elementary schooling was at a "little red schoolhouse" near the village of Eganville and Douglas. He attended high school at De La Salle College, Aurora, Ontario.

There, deciding to become a De La Salle Brother, he spent a year of spiritual training, a year called a novitiate. This was followed by two years of scholasticate, years of study. James had the choice of spending the second year with a French-speaking group in a college in Montreal. Here he became bilingual.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mercier Press
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1856350916
• ISBN 13: 9781856350914
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 128
• Editor: Mangan James