From Ireland to Manitoulin
William Bryan's journey from his birthplace in Ireland to his final resting place on Manitoulin Island would not have been an easy one. Born into a family of tenant farmers in Ireland in 1816, his life was destined to be difficult. An absentee English landlord made the rules by which his family had lived for generations, and those rules were harsh and unforgiving. The arrival of the Great Famine in 1845 made an already difficult situation untenable.
