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Article content Historian Jane McGaughey says COVID-19 has managed something unique when compared with Montreal’s pestilences past. Neither the cholera epidemics of the 1830s nor the 1847 typhus contagion, which killed between 3,000 and 6,000 Irish immigrants, could force cancellation of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade. COVID did just that for the first time in the parade’s 197-year history, McGaughey says, with last year’s edition and this year’s festivities aborted. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or What we can learn from epidemics that killed Irish immigrants in the 1800s Back to video ....