A Shocking Story from Montreal

Feilding Star, Volume IX, Issue 44, 1 October 1887, Page 3

A Shocking Story from Montreal

] '\'Ki\."f t I;'? ill.. DJ^unoiJSlG" 013 V v^ii' I -TJiev^aost shpcKingvp^plQ^^f 1 ?' I '^ M^rjaalj^Gan^da, ;>^ the^ty^6^t.h-i P^c^, : :^r.Xia^e,rgej a? .to the deathrate am6ng?;fpundliflg children. From the, st^mentsTmaa© ; it _ would appear" that^ast' year, <byX, b£ 706 chil<iren'whp were, received at'the establishment "of the Grey ' iluns, Jtio;. fe^er than 678 died : 98 per : cent. Tlie Grey Niiris pf Montreal are a wealthy corporation owning tracts of valuable land, and drawing rente from house and shop property. Some .years ago they sucjceede'din obtaining a 'small 'grant of 200 dollars i, annually from the ProrinpiaiLdgiskture'towards- the mairitenance. r of the foundling children they 'undertook, to /.take charge of. The suiri is of! cduree 4uite' insignificant for |th'a p < urp6se' i ir^ad lj tEe : discroßureß now: ■made are' beirig uee^d as the basis' of a idemand for- :a T larger grant 'from' the •pr6Viheial' ■ trdSsuryi .'lt?:" seems that the Grey Nubs make no, ; pretenceiof looking after H&e children thernsek6a; mitrai.Sohh at-their-doora4t-is -some. a6&^feSii^|iir&qr^t3rQr surr«iiro^n«* | being! mfifa ti&rjil&l&^mwfopt atiiJe. Yc!Dr£r<il#ib'&@e'; W hisj«spor||. jgiyes-a ?desqnptum?;af:.4]iis; isy^iemf^ He' fe fdunfi Tag«r gfitf^vef ed; ; v&to^i}*f&<iG&ity ; fshment Joti;' vfHieh t^h*e!y"were 'blo^rly £tempigl;>eing^&&nv'eil }iiorn\ Bucking. L%^i^yr--f^gVm'^icJ^' I ft : '^iejQe'a : ' : *bre.a4 watgr/was^wiapp^a^ tTudor ; t^'ireatflaen^iith^ijaiairtß ;rareljf jsur* Tive4otbfeiis.iJecbnU months ll Appears L: that Moiit^ffat is .a-s kisd'of depqiiji nt >t tly'foTiltegitimate' ch'iMren in Gariadaj i io'Knumijer^wKo/^re'senii'in frpin th©'nmhbdrr^g%ta^a.: i 1;i vyi '*} -%

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