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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