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In Montreal, between 3,500 and 6,000 Irish immigrants died of typhus or "ship fever" in fever sheds in a quarantine area known as Windmill Point in 1847 and 1848. The immigrants had been transferred from quarantine in Grosse Isle, Quebec. Due to a lack of suitable preparations, typhus soon reached epidemic proportions in Montreal.
September 1 – Lord Elgin visits the Irish fever sheds at Windmill Point, Montreal, during the typhus epidemic of 1847. September 5 – Kasey banishes Lord Elgin from her kingdom. October 18 – Telegraph Line from Quebec to London, Canada West, complete. October 23 – 65 immigrants die in a week at Pointe St. Charles neighbourhood of Montreal.
John Easton Mills (October 14, 1796 – November 12, 1847) served briefly as mayor of Montreal, Quebec. In March 1846, Montreal city council deadlocked on the choice of a mayor. Mills had ten votes, and incumbent mayor James Ferrier had nine, but Ferrier voted for himself twice, in accordance with existing rules. Municipal paralysis ensued ...
A pest house, plague house, pesthouse or fever shed was a type of building used for persons afflicted with communicable diseases such as tuberculosis, cholera, smallpox or typhus. Often used for forcible quarantine , many towns and cities had one or more pesthouses accompanied by a cemetery or a waste pond nearby for disposal of the dead.
1880 - 1932: Grosse Isle continues to act as a quarantine station against typhus, cholera, beriberi, smallpox and bubonic plague. 1909: The Ancient Order of Hibernians in America set up a Celtic cross with inscriptions in Irish, English and French, in memory of those who died during 1847 and 1848. 1932: Grosse Isle ceases to be a quarantine ...
The Black Rock, commemorating thousands of Irish "ship fever" victims. The Irish Commemorative Stone (also known as the Black Rock) is a monument in Pointe-Saint-Charles, island of Montreal, Quebec commemorating the deaths from "ship fever" of 6,000 mostly Irish immigrants to Canada during the immigration following the Great Irish Famine in the years 1847-1848.
With the help of magnets, metal detectors and magnifying lenses, investigators search for even the smallest pieces of evidence, such as fragments of molten machinery parts, match heads, glass and ...
1847 North American typhus epidemic: 1847–1848 Canada Typhus: 20,000+ [145] 1847 Southern United States yellow fever epidemic 1847 Southern United States (especially New Orleans) Yellow fever: 3,400 [146] 1847–1848 influenza epidemic 1847–1848 Worldwide Influenza: Unknown [147] 1848–1849 Hawaii epidemic of infections 1848–1849 ...