From the archives: Moving the Black Stone was monumental stupidity

This story was first published on Dec. 24, 2006, in the Montreal Gazette.
“People who had occasion to pass St. Patrick’s square, Point St. Charles, yesterday were surprised to see the “Ship Fever Monument” … occupying a prominent position on the corner of the square.”
The Gazette, Saturday, Dec. 22, 1900
It was an act of astonishing insensitivity. Without consulting a soul, the Grand Trunk Railway uprooted one of the most poignant and revered reminders of a d