Unveiling of Historical Informational Panels ,telling the story of thousands of Irish Famine migrants to Toronto and the city response.

The ceremony marks the arrival of the 'City of Toronto' steamship at Rees’ wharf in Toronto on Sunday, 6 June 1847, carrying 700 people, more than half of whom were “indigent” emigrants from the South and West of Ireland travelling at the expense of the government. The boat was a harbinger of the chaotic and overwhelming migration season to come, with some 38,500 immigrants arriving  in 1847 alone to a city with a population of merely 20,000.

This ceremony will feature speeches by Canadian and Irish public figures and a musical number.