For over a decade, Montreal’s Irish community has lobbied authorities for a commemorative park near the Black Rock site, where thousands of typhus victims are buried. Continue reading
“We are at the very beginning of planning,” officials said, “but it is exciting that we have reached this point.” Continue reading
Some Parti Québécois and Liberal signs caught the attention of Montreal’s Irish community. Continue reading
McGee remains to this day, the only federally elected official in Canadian history to have been assassinated. Continue reading
Kathleen Brown-Vandecruys will be the next queen of the Montreal St. Patrick’s Day parade. Continue reading
A group of Irish Montrealers want the burial site of 6,000 Irish immigrants to be converted into a park. Continue reading
Montrealers gathered for the annual ‘Walk to the Stone’ to honour the memory of those who landed on the shores of Montreal in 1847 escaping hunger and poverty in Ireland. Continue reading