(1919, Margaret Grant MacWhirter, published by The Telegraph Printing Co) Quebec)
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In her compelling 1919 book “Treasure Trove in Gaspé and the Baie des Chaleurs”,author Margaret Grant MacWhirter writes:
“Cap de Rosier has a tragic interest on account of the tales of marine disaster with which it is associated.
The story is still told in Gaspe village of the good ship Carricks which sailed from Sligo, Ireland, in May, 1847.
An old lady, perhaps the sole survivor, remembered the occurrence when interviewed by the writer. She, a child of twelve years, was one of seven children, and like all the passengers, her family were emigrants.
After a rough and uncomfortable passage of twenty-three days, the captain missed his reckoning in a blinding snowstorm, and in the darkness of the night, struck the cruel cape.
One stroke of the angry wave swept her clean. Comparatively few were saved, after hours of cold, hunger and fear such as may be imagined. The inhabitants came to the rescue, and treated the pitiable survivors with kindness.
Truly the beach presented a gruesome spectacle the following day, strewn for a mile and a-half with dead bodies.
For a whole day, two ox carts carried the dead to deep trenches near the scene of the disaster. In autumn the heavy storms sweep within sound of the spot. Thus peacefully, with the requiem of the waves and winds they rest.
In recent years, a monument has been erected to their memory by the parishioners of St. Patricks in Montreal. Alas! This is only one of the many sorrowful tales which are related of Cap de Rosier.”
