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Public Art In Montreal: Messages from the Past and to the Future
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Public Art In Montreal: Messages from the Past and to the Future
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The author describes the rich history of public art in Montreal. The first large and imposing public sculpture in Montreal is Nelson's Column, overlooking Jacques Cartier Square and erected in 1809. The column honours Admiral Horatio Nelson following his death in 1805 at the Battle of Trafalgar. Not only is Nelson's Column Montreal's oldest monument but it is also the oldest war memorial in Canada. Other monuments described by the author are: the Irish Commemorative Stone, better known as the Black Rock, located on Bridge Street. The Black Rock was erected by the mostly Irish workers constructing the Victoria Bridge in 1859, commemorating the 6,000 Irish refurgees who died from typhus after escaping the Great Hunger of the 1840s in their homeland and were buried in mass graves along Montreal's water front; Queen Victoria's monument, erected in 1869; the 1893 Maisonneuve monument; and the 1919 George-Étienne Cartier monument on Mount Royal.
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Quebec Heritage News
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Vol. 18
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no. 4
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Fall 2024
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11-14
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en
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Stock, Sandra. “Public Art In Montreal: Messages from the Past and to the Future.” Quebec Heritage News, Fall 2024.
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