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Why the Link?
Good question. Why indeed? Why should a web site endeavour to
link two countries an ocean apart. The answer is simple. "My
mother, my father, my grandmother, my grandfather, my great grandparents"
emigrated from Ireland "in 1950, 1925, 1891". The message
has been consistent in e-mails from Canadians received since the
Irish section of this web site first went online in 1996. Hence
the merger. Hence the attempt to provide a link between the two
countries, Canada and Ireland.
In the links section alone there has always been a collection
of web sites that were deemed of interest to people wishing to
learn more about Ireland. As time passed and inquiries increased
from persons wishing to know more about Canada, it became obvious
that there was a need to provide links to web sites that provided
information to those desiring to learn more about Canada.
To that end, a small collection of Canadian web sites may now
be found in the links section of www.vindicator.ca which houses
this Internet journal, The Canadian Vindicator. It is highly selective,
but as an introduction to things Canadian on the web it is offered
with the hope that it will encourage further exploration. In particular
that hope embraces young Irish men and women who may be contemplating
spending some years in another country. Too often in the past
the focus of Irish youth was centered on America, meaning the
United States. That country has been a haven for generations of
Irish emigrants. So too has its neighbour, but whereas in the
States the newcomers tended to congregate in neighbourhoods, sometimes
called ghettos, such has not been the case in Canada.
People of Irish descent can be found in every Canadian centre,
in every Canadian province, and in every walk of life. The pressure
to conform that is part of the American psyche, to become part
of the American melting pot, is absent in Canada. True, there
are tightly knit communities, but for Irish people there is no
sense of being strangers in a strange land. The fit in wherever
they go. That is part of the Irish psyche.
And Canada has so much to offer.
To the links section, and may
you find the experience rewarding.
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