<P> With the downturn of Ireland's economy in 2010, Irish people are again coming to Canada looking for work . Some come on work and travel visas . </P> <P> There are many communities in Ontario that are named after places and last names of Ireland, including Ballinafad, Ballyduff, Ballymote, Cavan, Connaught, Connellys, Dalton, Donnybrook, Dublin, Dundalk, Dunnville, Enniskillen, Erinsville, Galway, Hagarty, Irish Lake, Kearney, Keenansville, Kennedys, Killaloe, Killarney, Limerick, Listowel, Lucan, Maguire, Malone, McGarry, Moffat, Mullifarry, Munster, Navan, New Dublin, O'Connell, Oranmore, Quinn Settlement, Ripley, Shamrock, Tara, South Monaghan, Waterford and Westport . </P> <P> Saint John has often been called "Canada's Irish City". In the years between 1815, when vast industrial changes began to disrupt the old life - styles in Europe, and Canadian Confederation in 1867, when immigration of that era passed its peak, more than 150,000 immigrants from Ireland flooded into Saint John . Those who came in the earlier period were largely tradesmen, and many stayed in Saint John, becoming the backbone of its builders . But when the Great Irish Potato Famine raged between 1845 - 1852, huge waves of Famine refugees flooded these shores . It is estimated that between 1845 and 1847, some 30,000 arrived, more people than were living in the city at the time . In 1847, dubbed "Black 47," one of the worst years of the Famine, some 16,000 immigrants, most of them from Ireland, arrived at Partridge Island, the immigration and quarantine station at the mouth of Saint John Harbour . </P> <P> After the partitioning of the British colony of Nova Scotia in 1784 New Brunswick was originally named New Ireland with the capital to be in Saint John . </P>

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