Heritage Minutes (TV Series)
Orphans (1991)
Christian Tessier: Orphan
Quotes
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Narrator : In 1850 many Quebec families adopted Irish orphans. Their parents dead from ships fever on the Atlantic crossing.
Monsignor : Now Molly here is your new father and your new mother. You will now have the proud new name of Belanger. You are now a new Canadian Molly.
Molly Johnson : No! We have to keep our Irish names. My mother told me just before she died. We have to in memory of our homeland.
Adoptive Mother : Monsignor we'd accept that.
Monsignor : What's your name my child?
Molly Johnson : Johson sir! Molly Johson!
Monsignor : And you my child?
Orphan : Patrick! Patrick O'Neil!
Monsignor : And you?
Orphan : Kathleen Moyer!
Monsignor : Very well then
Narrator : A century and a half later many of those names still resound in Quebec.