1847 – First ship of the season arrives at the Grosse Ile, Quebec quarantine station near the port of Quebec; beginning of the most terrible summer of its 105-year history, as the Great Famine (Ireland) reaches its peak, and over 100 000 immigrants, many infected with typhus, arrive in a single season. Over 5000 perish at sea, 5424 are buried on Grosse Ile and thousands die in Quebec, Montreal and Kingston, Ontario.