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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.  
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