The Act of incorporation (23d Vic., cap13) and the by-laws, adopted 11th January, 1864 . atPoint St. Charles, is a spot of ground which was set asideby the Provincial Government for the interment of immi-grants. In this burial-ground are deposited the remainsof upwards of 6000 human beings, the victims of that pesti-lential fever which, in 1847-48, carried off whole familiesof immigrants who had fled from the famine and the pesti-lence that was raging in their native land, only to die upontheir arrival on a foreign shore, without a friend, perhaps,to close the eyes, soothe the sufferings of th
The Act of incorporation (23d Vic., cap13) and the by-laws, adopted 11th January, 1864 . atPoint St. Charles, is a spot of ground which was set asideby the Provincial Government for the interment of immi-grants. In this burial-ground are deposited the remainsof upwards of 6000 human beings, the victims of that pesti-lential fever which, in 1847-48, carried off whole familiesof immigrants who had fled from the famine and the pesti-lence that was raging in their native land, only to die upontheir arrival on a foreign shore, without a friend, perhaps,to close the eyes, soothe the sufferings of the dying, or toshed a tear over the unmarked grave of the poor immigrant Actuated with the noble feeling that all men are brethren,the employes of Mr. Hodges, to commemorate their sad THE VICTORIA BRIDGE. (5£> and unhappy fate, and to point out to the passing strangertheir last resting-place, placed in the burial-grounda large boulder taken out of the foundation of one ofthe piers, weighing over 17 tons, of which the following,with its appropriate inscription, is an illustration:. Reader, we have endeavoured to give a sketch of thehistory of the great Victoria Bridge, but we feel how ina-dequately has the task been accomplished. The man ofscience will feel disappointed that these pages are so bar-ren of scientific matter ; but we have reason to hope that alarge work of great merit, will, ere long, be published inEngland by one who built the Bridge. There is, however, a moral in its history, a practicalillustration, that when great ideas are conceived by men of ©2 GG hunters hand book of sense, however impraticable they may appear to the mul-titude at first, learn not to despise them. The greatest dis-coverers that the world has ever known, have been laughedat as fools, or treated as madmen; and the Victoria Bridgewould not at this day have been built across the greatriver St. Lawrence, had those who conceived the idea beenweak minded enough to succumb to public opinion. APP
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