The Minute Women dive into a crowd-favourite Heritage Minute: the Irish Orphans. Things get dark as Grace and Linnea discuss the events at Grosse Ile Quarantine Station in 1847 that lead to little orphans asking to keep their Irish names. <a href="https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/orphans">https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/orphans</a>

The Minute Women dive into a crowd-favourite Heritage Minute: the Irish Orphans. Things get dark as Grace and Linnea discuss the events at Grosse Ile Quarantine Station in 1847 that lead to little orphans asking to keep their Irish names. https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/orphans

The Minute Women dive into a crowd-favourite Heritage Minute: the Irish Orphans. Things get dark as Grace and Linnea discuss the events at Grosse Ile Quarantine Station in 1847 that lead to little orphans asking to keep their Irish names. <a href="https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/orphans" rel="noopener noreferrer">https://www.historicacanada.ca/content/heritage-minutes/orphans</a>

Irish Orphans

Minute Women is your weekly dose of Canadian history and corny 90s nostalgia. We are best friends Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer and we are on a mission to tell the untold stories behind the iconic Canadian Heritage Minutes. Along the way, we uncover the funny, weird, and downright terrifying stories left out of Canada’s national history.

Did you know John A. Macdonald's younger brother was murdered in a freak gin incident? Or that Sandford Fleming was going to call standard time "cosmic time"? Or that Governor Frontenac was a legendary jerk?

Well, neither did we! Join us to learn more! A not-so-proud part of our national heritage.

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Minute Women is your weekly dose of Canadian history and corny 90s nostalgia. We are best friends Grace McNutt and Linnea Swinimer and we are on a mission to tell the untold stories behind the iconic Canadian Heritage Minutes. Along the way, we uncover the funny, weird, and downright terrifying stories left out of Canada’s national history. Did you know John A. Macdonald's younger brother was murdered in a freak gin incident? Or that Sandford Fleming was going to call standard time "cosmic time"? Or that Governor Frontenac was a legendary jerk? Well, neither did we! Join us to learn more! A not-so-proud part of our national heritage.

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