Jenny and her family immigrated to Canada due to the potato famine in Ireland, where her mother later died of typhus. Jenny's father had to work making roads while away from home, so Jenny told people she was an orphan to live in a home. A rich man later adopted Jenny after she told him she had no family. Jenny worked hard on the farm to earn her keep. She worried about her father's well-being since he did not reply to her letters. At a dance, Jenny was reunited with her alive and healthy father.