The Thematic Guide to Sources Relating to the Grosse Île Quarantine Station was published on the Library and Archives Canada website Friday.
Some of these records contain genealogical information — e.g. Immigrants at Grosse Île (1885-1937) — about people who passed through or died at Grosse Île.
Go to <www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/005-1142.08-e.html>.
If you are planning a trip to the LAC in the near future, please check with them first to see if they are open.
They are presently closed due to a lack of heat and water caused by the shutdown last week of a heating plant caused by a boiler explosion in which one worker died, and several others were seriously injured.
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