-Q-Where in the east end, 1941, was this?

Someone in this Montreal photo - (well sorta in it) - was such a big shot that there's a port city named after him. A city that now has more residents than Montreal. Anybody have the answer?
   Hint: The urban area named after the well-travelled individual buried in (the tall grave) is in sub-Saharan Africa. The remains of that particular notable remain on Montreal island but have been moved west. The monument remains the same in the new spot.

Answer: Yes we have a correct reply. It`s the Benjamin D`Urban gravesite which was once in a small but lovely cemetery at Papineau and Logan. The last body was buried there in 1869. I`ve got some more info on the cemetery which I will post in the morning.

The cemetery was one of the oldest spots on the island and measured just 150 feet by 400 feet. But the city wasn`t so keen on this spot for fallen British soldiers and tried to expropriate it no less than five times, including one initiative in 1876 when the sought to build a hospital for contagious diseases on the site. In 1900 they wanted to take it over to make a park and following that the city sought to build a street over the bucolic urban spot.

In 1942 the city finally managed to get it, paying $35,000 for the property so they could extend Logan street.

In the middle of the cemetery was a headstone for Lt. Colonel R-P Holmes, 1789-1849. Holmes lost his right hand fighting against Napoleon in the battle of Badajoz, a town between Portugal and Spain. The skirmish allowed Wellington to get a foothold in the region. He was later seriously injured in the head at the Battle of Waterloo. He commanded the 23 rd Regiment here and died of cholera in 1849.

George Jenkins had his tomb nearby. Reverend Jenkins was chaplain of Wellington`s troops in Spain and France. He arrived in Montreal in 1812 and died in 1821.

D`Urban led troops in Portugal against Napoleon, moved on to Antigua, Guyana, South Africa. He came here at the age of 70 in 1846 when hostility between what is now Canada and the states erupted. He died three years later and his funeral was said to be the citys biggest ever for the time.

Another headstone marked the remains of William Lloyd, a British soldier who took the initiative to drop supplies to the disease-ridden Irish immigrant community in Point St. Charles. He eventually caught what they had - typhus - and died too.

George Weir, another British soldier, was also buried at the site. He was killed in the village of St. Denis in the rebellions of 1837. The last body was buried there in 1869 and they include some parents of the soldiers.