Name: Urban Horizons Tours
Address: Fontaine de Tourny, Quebec City, QC, G1A 1A1, CA
Telephone: +15819792804
Price range: $$
Rating: 5.0

John Falter’s 1974 painting, The Famished, masterfully captures the exhaustion and resilient hope of Irish immigrants arriving at Quebec's Grosse Île quarantine station during the Great Famine.

Grosse-Île: The Quarantine Island That Stood Between Quebec City and the Plague

Fifty kilometres from Quebec City, a small island in the St. Lawrence holds the graves of more than 5,000 people who never made it to the new life they were sailing toward. Discover the story of Grosse-Île — the quarantine island that stood between Quebec City and the plague.

Jean-Simon

Oct 54 min read