boulder, of a rough conical shape, weighing 30 tons, was dug up in
the vicinity, and was placed on a base of cut stone masonry, twelve
feet square by six feet high. The stone bears the following
inscription: "To preserve from desecration the remains of 6000
emigrants who died from ship fever in 1847 and 1848 this monument is
erected by workmen in the employment of Messrs. Peto, Brassey, &
Betts, engaged in the construction of the Victoria Bridge, 1859."
Several addresses were delivered on the occasion, and in the course
of that made by the Bishop of Montreal he alluded in feeling terms
to the many good deeds for which the Dame of his friend, Mr. James
Hodges, will be gratefully remembered in Canada. Thanks to the
latter, the plot of ground on which the monument is raised is set
apart for ever, so that the remains of those interred there will
henceforth be sacred from any irreverent treatment.




THE EMIGRANTS' MONUMENT AT POINT ST. CHARLES.


A kindly thought, a generous deed,
Ye gallant sons of toil!
No nobler trophy could ye raise
On your adopted soil
Than this monument to your kindred dead,
Who sleep beneath in their cold, dark bed.

Like you they left their fatherland,
And crossed th' Atlantic's foam