In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert ...

But a 2019 discovery lays out with far greater definition why the son of Irish emigrants ... remains of 21 people as Famine emigrants from Ireland who died after their coffin ship was shipwrecked ...

Among the wave of humanity that came to Canada in the 19th century were hundreds of thousands of Irish, some of whom ended up in our communities and, in so doing, helped shape them ...