Migrating During the Great Irish Famine

Seventy percent of the approximately one million Irish people that emigrated during the Irish Famine went over to America. Most of them paid their own fares but about three percent of them had their land lords pay their fares. A fare to the USA cost between 70 shillings and £5 (100 shillings) while a fare to Canada only cost around 55 shillings. On board there was two classes when travelling the standard class where you could walk on a deck and then there was a steerage  
class (a part or division of a ship, formerly the part containing the steering apparatus). The steerage passengers were below deck and crowded together, most emigrants could only afford steerage. It is estimated that forty percent of steerage passengers died en-route or soon after arrival, this was due to passengers suffering from a fever and then being in these cramped conditions.
 this image shows the conditions of the steerage class.
*image: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html
*sources: http://www.wesleyjohnston.com/users/ireland/past/famine/emigration.html