Orphans Heritage Minutes : Season 1 Episode 10
CBC Television 1m int(0)
Aired: March 31st, 1991 @ 7:00 PM EST on CBC Television
In the 1850s, many Québec families adopted Irish orphans, their parents dead from ship's fever on the Atlantic crossing The Irish and the French Canadians share a part of history that goes back more than 150 years, at a time when waves of European immigrants were flooding into Canada, most of them arriving first in Québec. One tragic episode occurred in 1847.