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| William Loane and
his wife Sarah
Winnett arrived in Canada with their 6
children in 1846. Civil uprisings and famine were part of daily life in
Ireland. They were a Protestant family in a
predominantly Catholic land. William was reportedly a local policeman
which would have made him a target for terrorist groups trying to
undermine the authority of the British. William and his family
traveled from
the town of Killaloe in the County of Clare. The journey by sailing ship and
covered wagon to York, now Toronto, is said to have taken several weeks.
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Death wagons were used to haul
away bodies during one of the worst famine years of 1847, a year after
William and Sarah left Ireland for Canada.
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The village of Skibbereen in
County Cork, 1848. A million people died of starvation and
another million left for United States, Canada and Australia.
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