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...
December 11, 1899 Our dear Mother Phelan, born in Ireland, was the daughter of Daniel Phelan and Elizabeth Dalton. As the family had settled in Canada, she came to know the Grey Nuns of Montreal et requested her admission to their noviciate on February 19, 1845,...
This powerful piece of digital storytelling offers listeners a chance to learn about the incredible hardships and resilience of the Barrett family from Ardnaglass, County Sligo, during the Great Hunger of 1847. It tells the remarkable story of Irish immigrant Thomas...
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,...
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...
Where do you come from? Why did your ancestors move and why did they choose that particular place to live? How and when did they get there? So many questions but too few answers. In 1825, James Skelly of County Westmeath was offered a land grant in the...
