Haunted Montreal Blog #108 – Montreal’s Forgotten Irish Famine Cemetery
Plans are afoot to build a whole new neighbourhood in the Bridge-Bonaventure sector of Point Saint Charles, just south of the Lachine Canal at Griffintown. Glossy designs depict new high-rise condominiums, trendy spaces for commerce and arts - and even an “urban beach” in the old Wellington Basin!
However, this utopian vision is partially located on the site that hosted Montreal’s first Irish Famine Cemetery in 1847.