“The Famished” by John Falter depicts Irish immigrants at Grosse Isle
Irish immigrants in Canada
Almost 450,000 Irish migrated to the British North American colonies in the decades prior to the Famine of 1847-52. Both Catholic and Protestant and from every county of Ireland, they made the voyage via Liverpool, landing in the port of Quebec on Grosse Isle, sometimes called the Canadian Ellis Island, in the river near Quebec City.
This was how Nathaniel Later, a Protestant born in County Donegal (no town known), came to Quebec in the 1830s together with his brother Stuart. On the island, they would have acquired land grants from the colonial administration and made their way south either along the Chaudiére River or overland to the rich farmlands of the
Both the Protestants and Catholics settled the Broughton area near St-Sylvestre. Anglicans like the Laters lived in East Broughton. Catholics lived in West Broughton, also called St. Pierre de Broughton.
Many came to Canada with intent to move to the U.S., and we see in the Later family that at least four of Nathaniel’s children subsequently went to the United States. But that doesn’t seem to have been Nathaniel’s intention since he established his farmstead in Quebec.
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