Irish Immigrant: Old Quebec

Montreal Gazette Dept: Farrell, 40, who owns an Irish pub in Old Quebec, was touched to find a memorial to another Peter Farrell, an Irish immigrant his age who died in 1846 before reaching Canada's mainland, according to Montreal Gazette. Last year, Farrell organized the Vieille Capitale's first St. Patrick's Parade in 84 years and a visit to Grosse le - the former quarantine station where Irish famine victims died in droves in the 1840s - inspired Peter Farrell to revive Quebec City's St. Patrick's Parade. "It just pushed me," Farrell said. "I said they should be remembered. There's so much history there and so much hardship." As reported in the news.
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