Irish Heritage Quebec brings history to life at St. Patrick’s Day event Shirley Nadeau shirley@qctonline.com There were plenty of Irish eyes smiling – despite some occasionally grim subject matter –…
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Local historian and frequent speaker at Irish Heritage Québec events Steve Cameron spoke about the Irish presence in Quebec, from the cholera epidemic in the 1830s, the Potato Famine in Ireland and the typhoid epidemic in the 1840s to the development of the Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site.