With 2025 marking the 200th anniversary of the Peter Robinson Irish emigration, the first of a series of events commemorating the event is fast approaching.
At 7 p.m. on January 21st at the Peterborough Lions Community Centre on Burnham Street, Nine Ships 1825 – a board established to mark the bicentennial – will outline the importance of the emigration to what became Peterborough as well as preview events that are planned for later in the year.
Nine Ships 1825 is a reference to the nine ships that carried Irish emigrants across the Atlantic Ocean in 1825. According to board chair Brendan Moher, expeditions departed from County Cork in Ireland for what was then Lower and Upper Canada.
Moher says parallels can be found 200 years on.
For several years, Moher, joined by Mary Smith, Maureen Crowley, Elwood Jones and Dennis Carter-Edwards, has worked on what’s planned for this year, including an August focus on and around Peter Robinson Day.
For more information about Nine Ships 1825 and details regarding planned events, visit www.nineships1825.com.
(Written by: Paul Rellinger)
