Re: Irish immigrant to Canada

cecilia a écrit :
On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 10:40:33 -0400, Bill <billlab51@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

[...] I know that my gg didn't arrive here by himself because he was only 7 at the time of the great irish immigration.

I suggest you read http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/famine/coffin.htm,
considering in particular "the Irish were sent on to their next
destination without any medical inspection or treatment. From Grosse
Isle, the Irish were given free passage up the St. Lawrence". If
there were no immigration health checks, and passage onwards was free,
records became less important, and completeness thereof may not have
been seen as a priority.

Very informative, a lot more than what I read. It confirms what I understood in my readings here and there and what I suspected about irish imigrants in Canada, as to they didn't all have medical inspection and papers. There were big epidemics in Quebec, mainly in Montreal at that time and I suspected that irish imigration could be the cause because of the epidemics in Ireland.

I read in a text from a US author that said that at that time, so many families were comming from Quebec, bringing illnesses with them, that it was almost a plague.

Thanks Cecilia
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