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The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922

The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish, and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922

McGowan, Mark

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Series: McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Religion, Book 32

Canadian HistoryCatholicismGeneral Christianity

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ISBN10: 0773517901
ISBN13: 9780773517905
Publisher: McGill-Queen's University Press
Published: Jun 1 1999
Pages: 432
Weight: 1.28
Height: 1.14 Width: 6.07 Depth: 9.06
Language: English

Most historical accounts of the Irish Catholic community in Toronto describe it as a poor underclass of society, ghettoized by the largely British, Protestant population and characterized by the sectarian violence between Protestants and Catholics that earned Toronto the title Belfast of Canada. Challenging this long-standing view of the Irish Catholic experience, Mark McGowan provides a new picture of the community's evolution and integration into Canadian society.

McGowan traces the evolution of the Catholic community from an isolated religious and Irish ethnic subculture in the late nineteenth century into an integrated segment of English Canadian society by the early twentieth century. English-speaking Catholics moved into all neighbourhoods of the city and socialized with and married non-Catholics. They even embraced their own brand of imperialism: by 1914 thousands of them had enlisted to fight for God and the British Empire.

McGowan's detailed and lively portrait will be of great interest to students and scholars of religious history, Irish studies, ethnic history, and Canadian history.

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