Notable Irish Canadians
- Stompin' Tom Connors – country and folk musician
- Thomas D'Arcy McGee – assassinated Father of Confederation
- Brian Mulroney – Prime Minister
- Mary Walsh – comedienne
- Owen Nolan - retired ice hockey player
- Logan McGuinness - Undefeated 17-0 (9 KO's) Super-Featherweight Professional boxer fighting out of Orangeville
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“a notable prince that was called King John;
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“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish or a German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making “ladies” dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”
—Stephanie Coontz (20th century)
“The Canadians of those days, at least, possessed a roving spirit of adventure which carried them further, in exposure to hardship and danger, than ever the New England colonist went, and led them, though not to clear and colonize the wilderness, yet to range over it as coureurs de bois, or runners of the woods, or, as Hontan prefers to call them, coureurs de risques, runners of risks; to say nothing of their enterprising priesthood.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)