Treatied Spaces is pleased to congratulate Historic Houses Global Crossroads Project Co-Lead, Professor Mark G. McGowan on his election to the Royal Society of Canada. Professor McGowan’s election was in recognition of his “original and innovative research methodology” resulting in “pioneering publications on the Irish diaspora in the North Atlantic world, sectarian relations, religious education, and Irish Famine orphans”.
Professor McGowan is internationally recognized as the leading expert on Irish migration and settlement in Canada. Author of the award-winning books Catholics at the Gathering Place: Historical Essays on the Archdiocese of Toronto (1992) and The Waning of the Green: Catholics, the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (McGill-Queen’s 1999); Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (McGill-Queen’s, 2005); he has recently completed a revisionist work on the Irish Famine migration to Canada (for the CHA Canadian Ethnic Groups Series) and a short award-winning book for the Ireland Park Foundation: Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847 and Toronto.
