The Irish Mile – Sheenboro

Sheenboro, Québec, Canada Located along the scenic shores of the Ottawa River and surrounded by tranquil lakes, Sheenboro, Quebec, seems like an unusual place to find shamrocks. Still, the little green clovers are everywhere—on the township’s welcome sign, its...

Mohawk Land Disposession by Sulpician Priests

To fully understand Irish settlement, we must first understand the context in which they arrived and were granted land to live on.  The land was controlled by the Sulpicians, a French society of diocesan priests, often remembered as wealthy, educated elites,...

A Brief History of Saint-Colomban

The Saint-Colomban parish and cemetery are situated in the province of Québec located 67 km north of Montréal in what was the Lac-des-Deux-Montagnes (Lake of Two Mountains) seigneurie. The Saint-Colomban parish and cemetery are historically significant because they...
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