Description
This book is a daily account of the unhappy events that took place in 1847, a year by which nearly 100,000 emigrants, most commonly Irish, disembarked at Grosse Ile or the Port of Quebec. Written as a diary, the book gives a detailed description of the executive measures taken by the authorities to handle the influx of such a lot of emigrants in deplorable conditions of disease and misery. It records the arrivals and departures of ships and gives a weekly account of the ill and the dead. The reader will even get an idea of the reactions expressed by the newspapers on the time and read first hand accounts by the emigrants themselves, priests, doctors, sailors and other contemporaries.