Canada’s Worst Summer Ever

In my spare time I wrote an article for Celtic Canada on line magazine. It’s in the Spring, 2019 issue. The magazine covers “All Things Celtic – Coast to Coast”.

I titled the article Canada’s Worst Summer Ever because 1847 was indeed Canada’s worst summer. Read the article to find out why.

Here is the link to the article, and you will need to scroll to page 12. You may also read Canada’s Worst Summer Ever using the pdf link below.

This is the opening paragraph:

1847 is “Black 47” in Ireland — the worst of a short span of years in which over a million Irish died of starvation and famine-related diseases and an equal number left the island forever. Thousands of Irish were forcibly evicted from their peasant huts and small potato fields, and placed aboard ships bound for Canada. They arrived in the summer of 1847. Canada never had a worse summer.