Black Rock
The Irish Commemorative Stone is a monument in Montreal commemorating the deaths from "ship fever" of 6,000 mostly Irish immigrants to Canada during the immigration following the Great Irish Famine in the years 1847-1848.- Type: Monument
- Description: memorial in Montreal
- Also known as: “Irish Commemorative Stone”, “The Black Stone”, and “The Ship Fever Monument”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Habitat 67 and Peel Basin.
Habitat 67
Habitat 67, or just Habitat, is a housing complex at Cité du Havre, on the Saint Lawrence River, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, designed by Israeli-Canadian-American architect Moshe Safdie. Habitat 67 is situated 1½ km north of Black Rock.
Peel Basin
Canal
Photo: Eric Samson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Peel Street is a major north–south street located in downtown Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The Street links Pine Avenue, near Mount Royal, in the north and Smith Street, in the Southwest borough, in the south. Peel Basin is situated 1 km northwest of Black Rock.
Square Saint-Patrick
Park
Square Saint-Patrick is a park, which is situated 1 km west of Black Rock.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Cité du Havre and Pointe du Moulin à Vent.
Cité du Havre
Neighborhood
Photo: Bruno Adamo, CC BY 2.0.
Cité du Havre is a neighbourhood in the borough of Ville-Marie of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. It is located on a narrow man-made peninsula, the Mackay Pier, which was largely built to protect the Old Port of Montreal from the currents of the Saint Lawrence River and from ice banks and floodings in the springtime.
South West
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Montreal South West is the area west of downtown, on both sides of the Lachine Canal, bordered by the districts of LaSalle, Verdun and Westmount. It is made up of the neighbourhoods of Petite-Bourgogne-Griffintown, Saint-Henri, Pointe-Saint-Charles, Côte-Saint-Paul and Ville Émard.
Black Rock
- Categories: rock, memorial, and historic site
- Location: Quebec, Canada, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
45.4868° or 45° 29′ 13″ northLongitude
-73.54636° or 73° 32′ 47″ westOpen location code
87Q8FFP3+PFOpenStreetMap ID
node 2844368447OpenStreetMap feature
historic=monumentWikidata ID
Q6070635
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In Other Languages
From French to Turkish—“Black Rock” goes by many names.
- French: “monument aux Irlandais morts du typhus à Montréal”
- French: “monument commémoratif irlandais”
- French: “Monument commémoratif irlandais”
- French: “Roc irlandais”
- French: “Roche noire”
- Igbo: “Nkume Ncheta Irish”
- Turkish: “monument commémoratif irlandais”
- Turkish: “Québec İrlanda Anıtı”
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