Could Britain as a result of the Irish potato famine deport evicted farmers and other various poor people in Ireland to colonies as a way of both solving the famine and filling the colonies
Would this reduce the deathtoll of famine
what would be the impact on Canada and Australia
By contrast, "transportation" or deportation to Australia evicted 162,000 convicts in total over decades.Considering the famine primarily got as bad as it did was due to Laissez-Faire and non-interventionist policies of the British government, I don’t see why they would put the massive expense into shipping what amounted to around 1 million people halfway across the world to its colonies. For Britain, this would just create an influx of destitute migrants in whatever colony they decided to send them to (like Australia) which wouldn’t really benefit them in any way.
If the British government decided to take a proactive approach to the famine and it’s aftermath, the solution would be to import subsidized food, not to randomly pack up hundreds of thousands of malnourished people into boats and ship them somewhere else. The only reason it happened IOTL was because the migrants secured their trips independently and went to a large variety of locations. The British government having to deal with this on their own just doesn’t seem likely or reasonable.
But this was to reduce British incarceration costs since it cost $ to keep convicts in prison. So the movement of convicts had the desired affect of reducing long term incarceration costs and freeing up space for other convicts thus reducing need to build additional jails and to settle a distant colony. As for the Irish there was no cost saving to transporting them since the government had almost no expenses in terms of supporting them.By contrast, "transportation" or deportation to Australia evicted 162,000 convicts in total over decades.
That is true. So it isn't fully comparable even then.But this was to reduce British incarceration costs since it cost $ to keep convicts in prison. So the movement of convicts had the desired affect of reducing long term incarceration costs and freeing up space for other convicts thus reducing need to build additional jails and to settle a distant colony. As for the Irish there was no cost saving to transporting them since the government had almost no expenses in terms of supporting them.
You mean, like this?An independent Australian Republic with Ned Kelly as it's first president?? Now there is a timeline I would read.
Most landlords couldn't because they had debts of their own to service but over 50 families did. Many of the surviving Irish country houses are still with us due to the fact that the families who forgave rents during the famine were regarded with honour and affection and spared the house burnings of 1923 some 70 odd years later.I don't know of any landlords that actually allowed any tenants to continue to farm without paying rent (so it seems that advice was hogwash)