Irish Famine Walk. It's funny how things come full circle. My Great Great Grandfather John (on my father's side) came over here from Ireland in 1848. He lived in Griffentown at one point and Point St. Charles (both situated southwest of Old Montreal, around the Lachine Canal). Griffintown was where the fever sheds were built to house the thousands of Irish immigrants coming from the famine in Ireland. In the census of 1852 he was classified as a labourer. I don't know at this time where he worked or exactly what he did. This photo is not my own, but it is a picture of the Darling Brothers Foundry that was built in the mid 1800's in Griffintown and employed 800 workers. Today it's an art gallery and production studios for up and coming artists. The full circle part is........ wouldn't it be ironic if John worked there years ago, because I now live in Edward Darling's summer residence in Pointe Claire on the golf course (Beaconsfield) that he helped founded in 1904.