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  2. McCorkell Line - Wikipedia

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    The McCorkell Line was a shipping line operated by Wm. McCorkell & Co. Ltd. from 1778, principally carrying passengers from Ireland, Scotland and England to the Americas. Notably, the McCorkell Line carried many immigrants who were fleeing the Great Irish Famine and sailed some of the most famous ships of the Western Ocean Ticket .

  3. Hannah (1849 shipwreck) - Wikipedia

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    Hannah was a brig, launched at Norton, New Brunswick, Canada in 1826.She transported emigrants to Canada during the Irish Famine.She is known for the terrible circumstances of her 1849 shipwreck, in which the captain and two officers left the sinking ship aboard the only lifeboat, leaving passengers and the rest of the crew to fend for themselves.

  4. Category:Irish emigrants to Canada - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Irish emigrants to Canada" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 244 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .

  5. Dunbrody (1845) - Wikipedia

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    She was fitted with bunks and between April and September from 1845 to 1851, she carried passengers on the outward leg to North America.These passengers were people desperate to escape the Great Famine of Ireland at the time, and conditions for steerage passengers were tough.

  6. Coffin ship - Wikipedia

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    Replica of the "good ship" Jeanie Johnston, which sailed during the Great Hunger when coffin ships were common. No one ever died on the Jeanie Johnston. A coffin ship (Irish: long cónra) is a popular idiom used to describe the ships that carried Irish migrants escaping the Great Irish Famine and Highlanders displaced by the Highland Clearances.

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  8. Grosse Isle - Wikipedia

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    Grosse Isle is sometimes referred to as Canada's Ellis Island (1892–1954), an association it shares with the Pier 21 immigration facility in Halifax, Nova Scotia. [4] It is estimated that in total, from its opening in 1832 to its closing in 1932, almost 500,000 Irish immigrants passed through Grosse Isle on their way to Canada. [5]

  9. 1847 North American typhus epidemic - Wikipedia

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    An influx of Irish immigrants to New York resulted in a typhus outbreak in 1847, with 80% of the cases reported to have been contracted during the Atlantic crossing, and 20% of the cases resulting from secondary spread in the city. 147 cases were treated at the New York Hospital over a seven-week period. The mortality rate was 11%.

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