Author: MANNING, AIDAN
Title: Between the Runways : A History of Irish-Catholic Settlement in Southern Peel County and Etobicoke
Description: Toronto, ON, Canada, Aidan Manning. 2009. (ISBN: 9780973029123). Paperback. Book, 330 pages. Signed by the author Aidan Manning on the title page. Clean sound reading copy with unmarked text. Graded good as there is a crease to the front and rear covers and tiny chip on the rear cover. Makes an excellent clean and sound reading copy. Priced accordingly with secure boxed packaging! "This book tells the story of the first three or four generations of Irish-Catholic settlers in what is now Mississauga..The story is related in fourteen short chapters that describe their journeys from Ireland, their ways of obtaining land, what awaited them on arrival at the sites of their new homes, their methods of house construction and farming, their food and how they tended to their spiritual needs.".. Also discusses the graveyard that ended up between runways at Toronto's Pearson International Airport. j5. Good. Signed by Author(s).

Keywords: 9780973029123 History Irish-Catholic Settlement Southern Peel County Etobicoke locay history mississauga