Georges Kavanagh, seen here on July 19, 2011, is an unilingual francophone today who feels a strong pull to the story of his Irish forebears.After 172 years, the Irish victims of a catastrophic shipwreck will finally get the proper burial they never had. In a windswept spot on Quebec’s Gaspé shore this week, in view of the surging waters that took their lives, the dead of the Carricks will be laid to rest.
The bones first surfaced in 2011, when a winter storm exposed partial skeletons on a stony beach off Cap-des-Rosiers, 700 kilometres northeast of Quebec City. The discovery set in motion a complex investigation. Only 48 passengers survived. Some bodies were never found. Those of 87 others were buried in a mass grave.
The discovery of the remains has struck a chord for many Irish Canadians, even if most immigration from Ireland to Canada came before the famine, according to Jason King, academic co-ordinator at the Irish Heritage Trust and National Famine Museum in Ireland. “This is a gesture of respect for migrants who’ve passed away in a moment of extreme danger and peril,” said Mr. King, who is working on an Irish-Canadian research project to track famine emigrants. “It invites us to reflect on people’s experiences today when they embark on similar types of journeys.”
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