Letter of the Day: Irish refugees faced intolerance

There’s an old Irish proverb that says a nation’s greatest enemy is the small minds of its small people.
My ancestors were refugees in 1844, a year before the Great Hunger would begin to plague Ireland. This preventable disaster under British occupation killed a million people and forced the migration of a million more.
They came aboard a coffin ship and several Donnelly descendants settled near Herbert, Saskatchewan. There were so many family members in this district that it became