The amount of migration from Kinkora is difficult to measure

exactly.

became teachers and found jobs in Island schools.

In the 1870's and 1880's many students from Kinkora

The number

obtaining teaching licenses in the 1890's and the first decade

of the twentieth century dropped dramatically, as can be seen in

Appendix A.

profession.

Brotherhood in New York State.

An apparently attractive alternative was the religious In 1894 eight men from the parish joined a Catholic (39) In 1899 John T. Murphy,

brother of Dr. Patrick C Murphy, was ordained a priest in Rome;

he was the first priest from the parish. (40)

In 1900 two young

women from Kinkora joined the Sisters of St. Joseph in Minneapolis.(41)

There is no record of men moving to western Canada to take advantage

of the opportunities in farming and gold mining.

number of voters in Kinkora change

decades, as Table 17 shows.

Table 17: Voting Results in Kinkora

Election Year

Federal 1891 Provincial 1893

Provincial 1899 Bye—election

Federal 1900 Provincial 1904

Federal 1908

Progressive-Conservative

Party Howatt and Hunt 112 111 Bentley and McCabe 75 79 MacQuarrie 111 A.A. Lefurgey 106 John M. Delaney and Anderson 100 66

A. A. Lefurgey 97

significantly over the

Nor do the two

Liberal Party Total Voters Perry and Yeo 20 21 132 Bell and Laird 4o 9 1157 S. E. Reid 17 128 J. H. Bell 29 135 s.E.REid and J. Read 32 22 132 Richards I 27 124