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MONTREAL — Montreal is one step closer to getting a commemorative park for the 6,000 Irish immigrants buried in unmarked graves in an industrial pocket of the city southeast of the downtown core.
The foundation says the land donation by the diocese was key to its goal to transform the area — passed by around 23,000 drivers every day — into a park honouring the thousands of Irish people who died of typhus in 1847 while fleeing Ireland’s Great Famine. Pollution from nearby railroad and vehicle traffic eventually coloured the monument deep black, lending it its name.
But men, women and children “deemed in good health” were allowed to continue their journey to Montreal, bringing typhus with them. Around 70,000 Irish immigrants arrived on Montreal Island, whose previous population was only 50,000. Many of them, including Mayor Mills himself, lost their lives. Some are among the dead buried in the mass grave.
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