"The Untold Story: The Irish In Canada" edited by Robert O'Driscoll and Lorna Reynolds, published in 1988 ISBN 0-921745-00-1 SNIPPET: Listers may be interested in the above-named book. Per review on other Irish list, one of the chapters is called "The Journal of Gerald KEEGAN that tells his sorrowful story of his leaving County Sligo with his new bride and other members of his family to journey to Canada during the famine. Gerald and Aileen marry April 9, 1847 and arrive in Dublin to supposedly embark the next day but are held up a week before they are allowed on board the ship. He faithfully pens his journal telling of all the hardships on the voyage. They don't arrive at Grosse Isle, Quebec until May 31 and are quarantined there. Gerald and his bride both perish there but one niece, Bridget, manages to recover from the horrid fever and makes her way to Gerald's uncle's in Huntingdon. This uncle goes back to Grosse Isle in an attempt to rescue Gerald but is unsuccessful, however, he does retrieve Gerald's journal, and escapes the fever himself, to return to his own family."