A new commemorative souvenir book was launched today for the Peter Robinson Irish emigration bicentennial this August in Peterborough.
Compiled by historian Elwood Jones and others, the book commemorates the nine ships which carried 2,024 Irish settlers across the Atlantic to lower and upper Canada in 1825.
The book details Peter Robinson’s political experiment to recruit the Irish to resettle in the area that is now known as Peterborough.
It’s a project of the non-profit “Nine Ships 1825” which has a number of bicentennial events planned for the first week of august
Jones says a key piece of the souvenir book is an alphabetical listing of all the passengers who crossed on the nine ships commissioned by the British government.