Listen to the attached reading from Kev's book "The Border: A Post-Canadian Anthology".

 

AUDIO CLIP

When I watch this clip (below) I remember my great-grandfather Daniel Edward O'Neill, deported by the British with his starving family from Cork, Ireland on a 'coffin ship' in 1880. Only ten year old Daniel survived when the ship arrived in Montreal; the rest of his family died of typhus and starvation.