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June 1, 2017

Editorial: Respect the dead at Montreal's Irish Commemorative Stone

An electrical sub-station is easy to move. Those 6,000 Irish souls should be left to rest in peace at Montreal's Irish Commemorative Stone, writes editorial.

They call it the Summer of Sorrow.

Published in Editorial
May 31, 2017

Montreal's Irish protest sale of ‘sacred’ land to Hydro-Quebec

Crowds gather around the black stone on May 28 that marks the memorial to the 6,000 Irish refugees who died after arriving in Canada in 1947.

MONTREAL – Hundreds of Montrealers ended a solemn march on May 28 by placing thousands of small white wooden crosses around a 28-tonne black stone that marks the mass grave of 6,000 Irish famine refugees who died 170 years ago.

Published in Canada