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==The landing at Grosse-Île== | ==The landing at Grosse-Île== | ||
If you seek references on the Irish in Quebec, you are very likely to land on books treating of [[Wikipedia:Grosse Isle, Quebec|Grosse-Île]] (Big Island). It seems the history of the Irish is before-all marked by the painful settlement of their ancestors in Lower Canada, then in United Canada, during the 19th century. | If you seek references on the Irish in Quebec, you are very likely to land on books treating of [[Wikipedia:Grosse Isle, Quebec|Grosse-Île]] (Big Island). It seems the history of the Irish is before-all marked by the painful settlement of their ancestors in Lower Canada, then in [[w:Province of Canada|United Canada]], during the 19th century. | ||
The name of Grosse-Île is on all the lips as soon as one evokes the Irish fact in Quebec. Located about fifty kilometers away from Quebec City, [[Image:Eyewitness-Grosse-Ile.jpg|thumb|left|''Eyewitness. Grosse Isle. 1847'' by Marianna O' Gallagher]]it was used as a place of quarantine for thousands of Irish people who had fled their country following the famine caused by calamitous potato harvests. Several of these newcomers were affected by [[Wikipedia:typhus|typhus]] and [[Wikipedia:cholera|cholera]]. Thus, from 1845 to 1849, some 200,000 Irish people landed in Quebec, half of whom during the sole year of 1847. | The name of Grosse-Île is on all the lips as soon as one evokes the Irish fact in Quebec. Located about fifty kilometers away from Quebec City, [[Image:Eyewitness-Grosse-Ile.jpg|thumb|left|''Eyewitness. Grosse Isle. 1847'' by Marianna O' Gallagher]]it was used as a place of quarantine for thousands of Irish people who had fled their country following the famine caused by calamitous potato harvests. Several of these newcomers were affected by [[Wikipedia:typhus|typhus]] and [[Wikipedia:cholera|cholera]]. Thus, from 1845 to 1849, some 200,000 Irish people landed in Quebec, half of whom during the sole year of 1847. |