Grosse Île: Canada’s Irish Famine Memorial

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Author/collaborator
Title
Grosse Île: Canada’s Irish 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 starvation in 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. The author outlines the events that led up to the famine in Ireland and the Irish exodus, and the vindication of the Irish community's four year-long campaign in the 1990s to prevent Parks Canada from turning Grosse Île into a Canadian Ellis Island.
Publication
Labour/Le Travail
Volume
Vol. 39
Pages
195-214
Date
Spring 1997
Language
en
URL
Citation
Quigley, Michael. “Grosse Île: Canada’s Irish Famine Memorial.” Labour/Le Travail Vol. 39 (Spring 1997): 195–214. http://lltjournal.ca/index.php/llt/article/viewFile/5063/5932.
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