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The Martindale Pioneer Cemetery

In a small rural community in Martindale, Quebec, a magnificent limestone Celtic cross stands guard over a burial ground where a number of survivors of Ireland's Great Famine found a peaceful final resting place.

The cross is inscribed in Irish, English and French with these words: "May the light of heaven shine on the souls of the Gaels who left Ireland in the years of the Great Famine to find eternal...more

"They Will be Remembered As Long as Music and Love Lasts"

By MAURA McCAY

It is now the autumn of the year and as the nights grow longer and darkness gathers outside our front doors, Celts begin preparations for the biggest celebration of the year - Samhain - the Celtic New Year, the celebration of the dead on November 1.

This is the time when the veil is thinnest and the portals between the two worlds are open. It is the time when our ancestors and loved ones who have gone before...more

An O'Malley Journeys to the Home of His Father's Father : Martindale

By MARTIN O'MALLEY

A thunderstorm woke me in hotel room in Ottawa. I had been dreaming; the storm must have started the dream. In the dream my father was telling about the night his father died.

It was last May (1991), when I was working for the Citizen's Forum on Canada's Future. Most of the winter I had been travelling with Keith Spicer, listening to Canadians tell their stories...more

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