In 1847, all but 48 Irish immigrant passengers fleeing famine aboard the ship known as the Carricks drowned offshore from Cap-des-Rosiers. Getty Images In 2011, a grim discovery was made on a beach in ...

Now that Canadian scientists have confirmed that the bones found washed up on a Quebec beach in 2011 and 2016 belonged to Irish Famine victims from the 1847 Carricks shipwreck, a minister in the Irish ...