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Montreal's Black Rock Site to Get Proper Memorial

Victor Boyle is a director with the Montreal Irish Memorial Park Foundation. (Matt D'Amours/CBC)

--March 6, 2019.

Hydro-Québec leaving space for memorial at site of mass grave of Irish refugees

larger_victor_0.jpgIrish Montrealer Victor Boyle is looking forward to having a "little piece of Ireland here in Canada" after Hydro-Québec announced what it will do for a commemorative space at the Black Rock site.

QAHN's featured speaker at this week's Heritage Talks conference was Louis Rastelli of Archives Montreal who gave a spirited ta

Trivia Quiz: Mount Royal Park, Mount Royal Model City and Surrounding Area (Answers)

--February 4, 2019.

1.
c. Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR). This company built the Mount Royal tunnel in 1912 and would merge with the Canadian National Railway (CN) in 1923 in large part due to this cost of this project.

2.
d. All of the above

3.
d. All of the above

4.
a. The Quiet Revolution. At this stage in Quebec’s history, some Francophones began to move into wealthier urban communities such as Mount Royal that had traditionally been anglophone dominated.

Despite hellish Montreal weather, QAHN kicked off its 2019 Heritage Talks Series with a conference at the BCRC by Dorothy Willi