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Easton Mills, Mayor of the City
of Montreal, who selflessly came
to care for the sick, themselves
contracted typhus and died. May
they rest in peace.”
• Cornwall (tbc): In the early
2000’s, some papers were given to
the Wood House Museums, among
which was the list of Irish who
arrived at the temporary hospital
on Pointe Maligne. The names of
the Irish immigrants along with
their age, religious affiliation,
and diagnosis were recorded as
well as the date of admission, the
diagnosis of their ailment, their
date of demission or death, as the
case may be. This was the first time
that specific details of the Irish
immigrants in Cornwall had come
to light. A committee was formed
and the Irish monument which
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stands to the west of the Wood were transferred to Beechwood that exists is precious as it records
House Museum is a tribute to the and Notre Dame Cemeteries when the journey of the migrants at a time
brave souls who made the journey those were established in the when the Irish were many times not
from Ireland to Canada between 1870s. Their final resting place was well treated on arrival – poverty,
June and October 1847. therefore largely forgotten by the difference religious background,
time the site was levelled to create and an influx in high numbers.
• MacDonald Gardens Park,
Macdonald Gardens Park. The Many times, the grave sites were
Ottawa: Here lie the remains of
some three hundred victims of first commemoration of Ottawa’s mass graves or later covered over
the Famine. They were among the Irish Famine victims was held on to make way for other uses for the
thousands of Famine refugees who 4 August 2022, under the auspices land.
arrived in Bytown in the summer of of the Embassy of Ireland with the *(tbc) to be confirmed
1847 in search of shelter and support support of local historian Michael Background: Famine and the
from relatives who had settled in McBane. Transatlantic Passage
the Ottawa and Gatineau Valleys. • Kingston, graveyard and
The refugees arriving in Bytown hospital, (tbc) By 1847, the blight causing the
(as Ottawa was known until 1855) • Toronto, (tbc) failure of the potato crop in Ireland
were met with heroic humanity had spread nationwide. It was the
by Sister Bruyère and the Sisters Along the trek from Grosse Ile third successive crop failure. The
of Charity, their lay assistants, the to Toronto there are a number of withdrawal of welfare and other
Oblate fathers, Dr. Van Courtland, monuments commemorating the supports by the British Government,
other clergy, and countless others Irish migration because of the combined with the continuation
who cared for the tide of the sick and Great Famine, in communities of food exports in deference to
dying. Few of the remains of those that received the migrants such as Britain’s defence of the market
buried in the Catholic graveyard Montreal, Cornwall, Kingston and
Toronto. The rare documentation Continued on page 22
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