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| | Grosse Ile, Famine Island |
 | | By far the greater part of Canada's Irish settlers and the offspring have lived on the fringes of larger alien communities. |
 | | In the fuzzy mind of popular history, the Irish of the new world have been linked to their larger and more "typical" settings, like Boston, New York, and Chicago, and when the drift shifts to Canada, the larger urban concentrations again spring to mind: Halifax, Saint John, Montreal......... |
 | | Grosse Ile, on the Saint Lawrence Seaway, near Quebec City, was the site where Irish victims of the ;(Famine of the mid 1800s were quarantined. |
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