I read that what happened to cause the huge lineup is that the winds just pushed the ships across the ocean way faster than normal..these were true coffin ships with terrible disease..Canadian ships were way cheaper, the ones to New Brunswick were for transporting logs and were jerry-rigged for humans and had almost no laws requiring arrangements for waste etc. So they get there, the ships were lined up for miles, they could not unload them, they were filled with dead people, the water was polluted from throwing old mattresses and the dead into the river..

And they threw the living and the dying and the dead into the mud to get them off the ships..many died floundering in the mud. That is what my song is about actually.

Many Quebecois heroes, priests, nuns, people who took in the orphans. How much would we have done, or do we do? mg