We are looking at the mid 19th century, where diseases, Not only the common flu but typhoid, cholera, and many more DEADLY illnesses were spreading. There are no vaccines or really any concrete scientific knowledge about these types of diseases. Remember, Canada is still apart of the British Empire at this time and a whole boat load of immigrants are regularly arriving from Europe.
Canadian officialls decided they needed a buffer station.
This began as part of a Bill passed by Lower Canada in 1832 to form a quarantine station for all incoming newcomers. They were primarily concerned about A cholera pandemic that had swept across India and had reached the British isles. Which was were a majority of Canada's incomers were originating.
All ships with sickness were required to dock at Grosse Ile before being permitted to land and disembark at the mainland.
They took all of the passengers off the ship and inspected their health. The sick would be treated in hospitals on the island, and the healthy would have to wait in quarantine on the island to see if they start developing symptoms, but they were often quickly cleared as healthy just to get them off their hands.
These ships were dubbed "Famine Ships"
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15 дек 2020
