Grosse-Île: Canadian Famine Memorial

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Grosse-Île: Canadian 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.
Book Title
The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora
Place
Amherst, Mass.
Publisher
University of Massachusetts Press
Date
1999
Pages
133-154
Language
it
Citation
Quigley, Michael. “Grosse-Île: Canadian Famine Memorial.” In The Great Famine and the Irish Diaspora, edited by Arthur Gribben, 133–154. Amherst, Mass.: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999.
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