Several years ago, Montreal’s city council announced that it would rename Outremont’s Vimy Park for Jacques Parizeau, the separatist premier who led Quebec before the 1995 referendum. The backlash was swift. What could be more outrageous, during the centenary of the First World War, than to rechristen a public space honouring Canada’s nation-building battle after a man who had tried to destroy…
Mathilde Montpetit
Mathilde Montpetit is earning a master’s in history at Aix-Marseille Université, in France. She has previously written for Harvard Magazine.