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Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial
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Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial
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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.
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History Ireland
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Vol. 5
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no. 2
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22-26
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1997
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Language |
en
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Citation |
Quigley, Michael. “Grosse Ile: Canada’s Island Famine Memorial.” History Ireland Vol. 5, no. 2 (1997): 22–26.
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