Burning of the Montreal : and loss of three hundred Scotch Emigrants.
[Scotland? : s.n.,
1857?]
Dated from internal evidence - The tragic fire aboard the paddle steamer, the 'Montreal', broke out on the 26th June 1857, en route from Quebec to Montreal. Among the passengers were 250 Scottish men, women and children who had just disembarked from the 'John MacKenzie', which had brought them from Scotland.
First lines read: You people of Scotland I pray give attention, / A sad dismal story I soon shall let you hear, / Of the dreadful burning of the Steamship the Mon'real / For Montreal in Canada her course she did steer.
Tune - 'Flowers of the forest'.
In one column with an illustration above the title.
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