The Historian · Marguerite · Montréal
Black Rock (Irish Commemorative Stone)
This is the memory the city almost lost. In 1847, ships carrying Irish famine refugees brought typhus; thousands died in fever sheds on this spot. When workers building the Victoria Bridge in 1859 — many of them Irish — unearthed the mass graves, they refused to let the dead be forgotten and set this thirty-tonne black stone as a memorial. Around 6,000 are buried near here. It stands in a hard, industrial spot, which is exactly right.
A large black boulder marking the mass grave of 6,000 Irish famine migrants who died in 1847 fever sheds — the city's most solemn memorial.
— Marguerite, The Historian
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