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Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832-1937

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Life and Death at Sea

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Black and white photograph of a group of people on the deck of a ship watching two boys playing leap frog
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Immigrants playing leap frog on the SS Empress of Britain, ca. 1910

Black and white photograph of people standing amongst baggage on the deck of a ship
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Second-class baggage on board SS Empress of Britain

Black and white photograph of a large group of immigrants on the deck of a ship
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Welsh Patagonians leaving England for Canada on the SS Numidian of the Allan Line, June 12, 1902

Black and white photograph of two men and two women with a group of children standing on the deck of a ship
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Russian families on deck, ca. 1897

Black and white photograph of a large group of boys posing outside a building
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Group of immigrant boys en route to Stratford, Ontario, 1908

Black and white photograph of a group of well-dressed women posing in a room
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Immigration Centre workers, Québec, ca. 1911

Black and white photograph of a group of people on the deck of a ship watching a woman skip rope
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Immigrants skipping rope while en route to Canada aboard SS Empress of Britain, ca. 1910

Black and white photograph of people lounging on the deck of a ship
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Lake Huron bringing the first group of Doukhobors to Canada in 1899. It is held in quarantine at Grosse Île due to smallpox cases discovered onboard

Black and white newspaper sketch of people lounging on the deck of a ship
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"Emigrants on the Forecastle" from the Canadian Illustrated News, July 30, 1870

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