Heritage Minutes (TV Series)

Orphans (1991)

Katherine Trowell: Narrator

Quotes 

• 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.