Posted on 08/16/2017 10:49:31 AM PDT by simpson96
The Hudson's Bay Company has removed a plaque from the company's flagship store in downtown Montreal that commemorates Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederate States during the American Civil War.(snip)
The aftermath of the Charlottesville clashes has prompted many to look closer at Confederate monuments in their own neighbourhoods.
The Montreal plaque hung on a wall of the HBC store on Union Avenue. Written in French, it read: "To the memory of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, who lived in 1867 in the home of John Lovell, which was once here."(snip)
Andrew Papenheim first saw the plaque posted online. He walks down Union Avenue almost daily, and he said that once he knew the plaque was there, it increasingly irked him to see it.
"I'm not sure why we would go out of our way to commemorate this dark and horrible thing. Jefferson Davis was not an honourable man, he committed treason in defence of chattel slavery."
'An offence to me'
Papenheim said he got tired of being upset and decided to find out why the plaque was still on display.
"I wanted to figure out how it was being funded. It was really important to me that we were not spending public funds commemorating this disgusting thing," he said.
Papenheim said Tuesday evening that he's pleased the company took "action so swiftly" and removed the tribute to a man remembered almost solely for trying to destroy the American republic so that southern plantation owners and industrialists could continue to profit from human enslavement.
"I think it's a wonderful move. I think it's a great start for the city. I think it's a positive thing for the city," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at cbc.ca ...
Judged by today's standards then everyone back then falls short.
Because if the put yellow armbands on the people they hated, their intentions might become a bit too obvious.
"...Hold off a few weeks.
I'm going to Montreal in October..."
Wow, truly the world is a better place for having removed an old, rusty-looking plaque by which one whole person was bothered.
Many freed slaves assumed the Yankees were a liberating army and approached them begging for food and assistance. During the march to the sea, this became a bigger and bigger problem as Sherman penetrated deeper into the South. He was known to enact a rule that any negroe had to keep a minimum distance of 2 miles from his army.
Judged by today’s standards, all of human history must be wiped out of memory.
The little snit should look in his own back yard to find something to be offended by. CANADA honors it’s own rebels! There are statues and memorials to LOUIS RIEL and the Metis rebels in several places.
http://shewhoseeks.blogspot.com/2010/11/louis-riel-canadian-folk-hero.html
The issue of slavery was an afterthought to the civil war.
Interesting contrast between the people who forced the yellow armbands and the way the old South treated its Jewish citizens (sending some of them to the U.S. Senate at a time when that would not have been acceptable in the less tolerant North.)
On the whole question of forced conformity:
I did not know that. Thanks for informing me of this.
As a citizen of Canada, born and raised, I have mixed feelings on your comment. If Montréal is able to get a new ‘Expos’ MLB franchise, then “Non Monsieur!”
Riel is considered a hero now among the French and Natives, and in the Province of MB.
No problem...years of being a history buff, and all that knowledge is finally becoming useful! Lol
Private company, private decision.
None of our business.
“The issue of slavery was an afterthought to the civil war.”
That is not what Alexander Stephens said.
That is not what that source documents claim.
Self-hating White boy strikes again. The Marxists in his schools did their job very well
Looks like he should still be in 10th. grade...
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