Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial

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Author/collaborator
Title
Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial
Abstract
Grosse Île, a small island down river from Quebec City, is the site of a mass grave of thousands of Irish who fled their homeland in the mid-1840s and died of typhus at the island quarantine station. It is considered the most important Great Famine site outside of Ireland.
Publication
History Ireland
Volume
Vol. 5
Issue
no. 2
Pages
22-26
Date
1997
Language
en
Citation
Quigley, Michael. “Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial.” History Ireland Vol. 5, no. 2 (1997): 22–26.
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