Westmount skeletal remains: Hidden pregnancy likely, coroner says

Around December 1948, the body of a newborn baby girl, including part of her umbilical cord, was carefully wrapped in newspapers and placed in the furnace-room ceiling of a home on Victoria Ave. in Westmount.
But who was the mother? Was the baby stillborn or was she killed? Why was the body hidden?
Seventy years after the final resting place was sealed up and a year and a half after it was accidentally discovered, a coroner says the mystery may never be solved.
The mummified body was found in Ja