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Irish-Canadian Documentary Heritage at Library and Archives Canada
Symposium
Symposium 2008
2008 Irish Studies Symposium: November 3 & 4
LAC Irish-Canadian Archival Materials Demonstration
Library and Archives Canada was pleased to display various Irish-Canadian materials from its collection and enable participants to speak directly with archivists about LAC's collection. The displays focused on images of Grosse Île (a quarantine station for immigrants) and photographs taken by William Topley, an Ottawa photographer.
Grosse Île
For more information about Grosse Île, view LAC's online exhibit, In Quarantine: Life and Death on Grosse Île, 1832-1937
Notice For the Information of Emigrants, published by A.C. Buchanan, Chief Emigrant Agent at Québec, June 6, 1834 (RG 4 A1, Vol. 444, File "Chief Emigrant Officer Annual Report 1834, Part III")
Sketch map of Grosse Île by Lt. W. Yolland, Royal Engineers, May 13, 1832
Grosse Île—View from the Officer's Quarters, by Henry Hugh Manvers Percy, ca. 1838–1840
Weekly Return of Sick in the Quarantine Hospital Grosse Isle from 28th May to the 3rd June 1848, compiled by Dr. G. Douglas, Medical Superintendant (RG 4 C1, Vol. 228, No. 1743 of 1848)
Letter from Dr. Montizambert to the Deputy Minister of Agriculture reporting the number of people with typhus and arrangements for the care of their children by the wife of an employee, May 30, 1869
William James Topley, Photographer
For more information about William James Topley, view LAC's online exhibit, William James Topley: Reflections on a Capital Photographer
William James Topley, January 1878
Looking towards Rideau Street from Nepean Point, showing Rideau Canal Locks
Harriot Georgina, Countess of Dufferin, with members of her family, photographed in a winter studio setting with a toboggan, a sleigh, and snowshoes
Mademoiselle Rosa D'Erina
Letter from Rosa D'Erina to William Topley requesting 5,000 additional copies of her portrait, published in The Daily Citizen, Ottawa, February 26, 1874
Symposium Sponsors:
Ancestry.ca [www.ancestry.ca] 
National Archives of Ireland [www.nationalarchives.ie] 
