Vieux-Port

This guide to the Vieux-Port in Quebec City follows the wharves where officials failed to catch cholera before it reached the city in June eighteen thirty-two, after the ship Carrick arrived from Dublin having already lost passengers at sea. You'll hear about the hastily built quarantine station on Grosse-Ile, the outbreak that overwhelmed Quebec's cemeteries, and how the same failures repeated with Irish famine ships in eighteen forty-seven. It's a look at a harbor built for trade that kept getting caught out by what its ships carried.