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The Anglican Church has donated the parcel of land near the Victoria Bridge to memorialize 6,000 Irish immigrants who died in Montreal more than a century-and-a-half ago.

Bishop Mary Irwin-Gibson of the Anglican Diocese of Montreal has announced the official transfer of the land upon which the historic Black Rock Monument rests to The Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation.

The Anglican Diocese of Montreal is ceding the territory surrounding "Black Rock," the site of a mass Irish grave on Bridge Street, to the Montreal Irish Monument Park Foundation.

Montreal’s Grey Nuns cared for the dying and the sick during Ireland's Great Hunger in the fever sheds by the St. Lawrence River.

After The Main, a second Montreal smoked meat business is announcing its closure in the span of a week. Quebec Smoked Meat, a family business in Pointe-Saint-Charles that served "old-fashioned" smoked meat, is closing down too.

Concrete plans are now in the works for a long-awaited memorial to honour the Irish community in Quebec.

The Black Rock, an Irish Famine Monument which sits between lanes of heavy traffic, is to finally be given a memorial park after years of campaigning by the Montreal Irish community. The stone monument in Point-Saint-Charles commemorates the Irish immigrants who died on their way to Canada.

While more than one-third of Montreal residents are from visible and ethnic minorities, only only 21 per cent of the citys 25,000 employees are from minority backgrounds.

Beneath the monument are the burial grounds of some-6000 of these immigrants, who contracted typhus aboard ships as they fled the great famine.

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