THANKS for stopping by, I do my best to acknowledge when someone leaves a comment,you do not have to be a member here & everyone is welcome. Ps: This site is monitored but not actively posting on a regular basis. Mostly these are stories & some photos saved from a defunct site known as Verdun Connections which was on MSN Groups initially then on a social network called Multiply.
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Would anyone know where the old PSC Homestead website has gone? Thank you.
Annonymous the Point Saint Charles site does seem to have disappeared I looked every way I could think of to find it,but then I found an old bookmark on one of my old external hard drives and it worked for me, Although the front page with the usual old bus photo or a shot from the point in the old days still shows up everyday,the actual 'guest book' stopped last October 26th, I try opening it every so often and it shows no new posts.
Perhaps George is tired now and just has the front page change automatically like a random desktop background can do.
Try this address: You will have to high-light it then copy and paste in your search bar and it should bring you to the site: maybe a note to George asking how he is or if he plans to use the site again.Again good luck.
https://indexgwm.homestead.com/GWMcRae.html
Cheers ! LesF
Thank you Les F - worked like a charm, but you are correct no Guest Book : ( Greatly missed.
Glad you found it and it worked for you. I have been thinking of using the 'Contact' spot on the PSC site near the top of the page and send George a brief Hello . If he has chosen to retire from active guest book then I hope he enjoys the rest . He has worked hard and has been totally dedicated to keeping PSC memories alive.
Cheers ! Les
Hello Les, actually I tried the PCS site contact with little success. Attaching a PSC article that may be of interest to some in Verdun/PSC, etc.
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Gail Dever posted: " After analyzing bones found during work on a light-rail station in Montreal, an archaeological lab has revealed new details about the lives of Irish migrants who died there in 1847. The 2019 archeological dig in Pointe-Sainte-Charles — where the " Genealogy à la carte
Analysis of Montreal Irish Famine victims’ bones gives insight into their health issues — and they’re looking for descendants
Gail Dever
Jul 21
After analyzing bones found during work on a light-rail station in Montreal, an archaeological lab has revealed new details about the lives of Irish migrants who died there in 1847.
The 2019 archeological dig in Pointe-Sainte-Charles — where the Irish fleeing the potato famine were quarantined and, if they did not survive, buried — revealed 14 bodies, including seven adults, three teenagers, and four children.
The results of the analysis showed the deceased had suffered from fractures, bacterial infections, chronic diseases, and signs of malnutrition.
Archaeologist Marine Puech said most were from rural southwestern Ireland, and the lab was able to pinpoint their time of death to between August and September of 1847.
These 14 victims were among the 6,000 Irish buried in a mass grave in Pointe-Sainte-Charles. The Black Rock, one of the oldest Famine memorials, was erected by the Irish construction workers who discovered the remains while they were building Victoria Bridge close by. Most of those buried died of typhus.
When Montreal's Victoria Bridge was being built between 1854 and 1859, workers discovered a mass grave of thousands of Irish immigrants who died in the fever sheds after being quarantined with typhus. A ten-foot high boulder that had been unearthed during the excavation for the bridge was erected and inscribed in memory of those immigrants who died.
The remains will soon be sent to a lab in Trois-Rivières where the DNA will be sequenced in the hopes of finding living descendants.
Read more about the findings in the CBC News report, Bone analysis provides window into lives of Montreal's Irish potato famine migrants.
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