Welcome Niall O’Donell, Emigrant! is the story of an Irish Emigrant, Niall O’Donell, who arrives in Canada in 1828, on the ship carrying John Neilson, Editor of the Quebec Gazette, home from England. Niall becomes a reporter for the Legislative Assembly of Lower Canada and falls several times in love as he reports on events in the colony. He visits Montreal in time for the election riot of 1832 and is there during the terrible cholera epidemic of that same year.