Back in New York, Going to Montreal!
Montreal Event Venue Changed!
New York is a great town and I have greatly enjoyed being here for two days.
Tomorrow morning, we are off to Montréal to annoy our college-age children.
I had announced earlier that I would be meeting Montréal wine lovers on Thursday, August 30th from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, at the main entrance of the Lionel Groulx Metro station.
Subsequently, I received numerous e-mails from Québec readers urging me to boycott the Lionel Groulx station on the grounds that Lionel Groulx was both an anti-semite and proto-fascist. One reader went so far as to mail me a book published in 1993 by one Esther Delisle, entilted: The Traitor and the Jew: Anti-Semitism and the Delirium of Extremist Right-Wing Nationalism in French Canada from 1929-1939, (Antisémitisme et nationalisme d'extrême-droite dans la province de Québec 1929-1939). This book, which I could only skim read in the two days I have been in New York, makes a seemingly convincing case that Griolx was an anti-semite, but I know that many Québec scholars feels that Deslisle went too far and gave a one-dimensional view of Groulx's contributions.
Clearly, I am not going to be able to resolve this by Thursday, so I have moved the event to the Lucien-L'Allier Metro Station at the same time and date.
Lucien L'Allier (1909-1978), engineer and director of public works for the City of Montreal, was the chief engineer for the construction of Île Notre-Dame and the enlargement of Île Sainte-Hélène for Expo 67. He also served as the president of the Montreal Transit Commission starting in 1964, and of the Montreal Urban Community Transit Commission from its creation in 1970. During his tenure, he served as chief engineer for the initial network of the metro.
Lucien L'Allier
Tragically, L'Allier died during the construction of the station, but his legacy remains....clean of all charges of anti-semitism and proto-fascism.
Don't miss this exciting book-signing and wine event!
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