CH-0140 · RESEARCH DRAFT
Irish famine migration and the Grosse Île crisis
Irish famine migration and a typhus epidemic overwhelmed the Grosse Île quarantine station in 1847. Loss of life extended beyond the island to receiving communities.
Not publication-ready. This records a crisis year, not the beginning or end of Irish migration. Do not equate every arrival with an Irish migrant or attribute every death to one location.
- Historical place
- St. Lawrence and Great Lakes
- Present-day context
- Unknown — navigation aid, not historical jurisdiction
- Peoples named in this record
- Irish migrants, Quarantine workers
- Review state
- source supported draft — source-supported draft is not independent verification
- Catalogue updated
- French text
- Translation pending; English research text shown.
Map context
No dated political snapshot is available for this event. No historical boundary is inferred.
Source evidence
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1847: A tragic year at Grosse Île
Parks Canada · · Review: primary institutional reference
Recorded retrieval date: 2026-10-12. This date does not prove a complete document was reviewed.
Opened institutional page or retrieved official search extract. Event and movement remain editorial drafts.