Irish Commemorative Stone, Memorial monument in Pointe-Saint-Charles, Montreal, Canada

This is a stone monument on Bridge Street in Montreal that commemorates Irish immigrants who died during their voyage to Canada. Its inscriptions tell the story of a specific historical loss that occurred in the mid-1800s.

Workers building the Victoria Bridge for the Grand Trunk Railway found coffins and bones at Windmill Point, where typhus victims of 1847 had been quarantined in fever sheds. Many of the workers were of Irish descent, and they erected the boulder on 1 December 1859, the first Canadian monument to the famine. In 1900 the Grand Trunk Railway moved it; after a 1911 judgment by Justice Mabee it was returned on 24 June 1912 and re-unveiled on 17 August 1913.

The stone is also called the Black Rock, the Ship Fever Monument or the Boulder Stone. Each year on the last Sunday of May, the Irish community walks from St. Gabriel's Church in Pointe-Saint-Charles to the stone to commemorate the victims. The Ancient Order of Hibernians leads this annual walk.

The stone sits on Bridge Street where it is easy to spot and visit while walking through the neighborhood. The surrounding area is being improved to make the site more accessible and welcoming to those who wish to pay their respects.

The stone sits about fifteen feet from its original spot; in June 1966 the road was moved instead of the monument. Excavations for the REM in 2019 uncovered twelve to fifteen bodies in a 2.3-metre hole, and bones found nearby are reburied beside the rock.