More than 7,000 Irish immigrants and health workers are buried on a plot of land that was recently sold by the Government of Canada. The Black Rock monument in Pointe Saint Charles, Montreal honours the immigrants who died from typhus, after travelling to Canada to escape from the Irish famine.
A Roman Catholic Priest was recently summoned to bless the land in Pointe Saint Charles, before Hydro Quebec employees started preliminary work.
Hydro Quebec workers found evidence of human remains on the land.
The Government of Canada should reclaim this sacred land. Immediately.
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| Black Rock, the Montreal Irish Monument. |
A few years ago I visited Quebec City, and I was astonished when I find out that the heavy metal group "Metallica" was giving a concert on the grounds of The Plains of Abraham. Celine Dion and the pretentiously named "Sir" Paul McCartney also entertained crowds of people on this former battleground. The Plains of Abraham are not an entertainment venue, another Air Canada Centre or SkyDome/ Rogers Centre. People should not be cavorting on a battlefield where soldiers died and were injured. To dance on someone's grave is to rejoice that they are dead. I'll bet that "Sir Paul" will never perform at Vimy Ridge in France or a Civil War memorial in Virginia.
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