The Catholic Church needs heroes like never before, and Bishop Michael Power of Toronto who was placed on the path to ...

In the 1840s, Irish peasants came to Canada in vast numbers to escape a famine that swept Ireland ... crossing the Atlantic in so-called "coffin ships" during the 1840s. (As portrayed by Robert ...

I don’t have an Irish name, I don’t know the detail of my family history of famine fleers, coffin ship survivors or ...

before the Great Famine in 1845. A mass emigration took place from the remote community, many of whom left on ‘coffin ships’ to America, and did not make the journey. Those who were fortunate ...