Spearheaded by Professor Marie McAndrew and Université de Montréal, Exploring Collective Memory is a teacher training film recovered from the archives that follows English and French student teachers on an educational visit to Grosse-Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Quebec to learn about the Famine Irish migration to Canada in 1847. It explores the role of the Irish in shaping teaching practices for immigrant communities. Exploring Collective Memory is a teacher training film recovered from the archives that follows English and French student teachers on an educational visit to Grosse-Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site in Quebec to learn about the Famine Irish migration to Canada in 1847. It explores the role of the Irish in shaping teaching practices for immigrant communities.

On May 25, 1998, Grosse Île and the Irish Memorial National Historic Site was twinned with the National Famine Museum of Strokestown Park located in County Roscommon, Ireland. The latter features a thematic exhibition on the famine that ravaged Ireland in the mid-19th century. Though separated by thousands of kilometres, the two heritage sites tell the same story in their own unique ways. The goal of the partnership is to provide more information about an important chapter in Canadian and European history.