Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site
Designated
1974
Grosse Isle (French: Grosse Île, "big island") is an island located in the St. Lawrence River in Quebec, Canada. It is one of the islands of the 21-island Isle-aux-Grues archipelago. It is part of the municipality of Saint-Antoine-de-l'Isle-aux-Grues, located in the Chaudière-Appalaches region of the province.
Also known as Grosse Isle(the famine) and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site, the island was the site of an immigration depot which housed predominantly Irish immigrants coming to Canada to escape the Great Famine of 1845–1849.[1] In 1832, the Lower Canadian Government had previously set up this depot to contain an earlier cholera epidemic that was believed to be caused by the large influx of European immigrants, and the station was reopened in the mid-19th century to accommodate Irish immigrants who had contracted typhus during their voyages. Thousands of Irish were quarantined on Grosse Isle from 1832 to 1848.
It is believed that over 3,000[2] Irish people died on the island and that over 5,000[2] are currently buried in the cemetery there; many died en route. Most who died on the island were infected with typhus, a result of poor sanitary conditions there in 1847. Grosse Isle is the largest burial ground for refugees of the Great Famine outside Ireland. After Canadian Confederation in 1867, the buildings and equipment were modernized to meet the standards of the new Canadian government's immigration policies.[3]
Grosse Isle is sometimes referred to as Canada's Ellis Island (1892–1954), an association it shares with the Pier 21 immigration facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia.[4] It is estimated that in total, from its opening in 1832 to its closing in 1932, almost 500,000 Irish immigrants passed through Grosse Isle on their way to Canada.[5]
Steamer Lake Champlain arriving at port, Québec, Oct. 1911
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^ abA. Charbonneau: Parks Canada Website Archived 2006-08-06 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved August 9, 2006
^Moving Here, Staying Here: The Canadian Immigrant Experience at Library and Archives Canada
^Penelope Johnston, "Canada's Ellis Island", The Beaver, February–March 2009, p. 52–53.
^"The Irish Exodus - Irish in America". Libraryireland.com. Retrieved 1 November 2021.
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