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(32,025 posts) Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:06 PM Aug 2017

Confederate plaque on Montreal Hudson's Bay store removed

Source: CBC

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 U.S. Civil War.

"We are working this evening to have the plaque removed," wrote Tiffany Bourré, a spokesperson for HBC, in an email to CBC News Tuesday afternoon.

Calls to have the plaque removed emerged after a 32-year-old woman was killed in a deadly car attack on anti-racism protesters who were demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The man charged in the attack idolized Nazis, according to a former teacher.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/jefferson-davis-confederate-plaque-montreal-1.4248206

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Confederate plaque on Montreal Hudson's Bay store removed (Original Post) alp227 Aug 2017 OP

Yet another gift of those darling United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1957... Princess Turandot Aug 2017 #1

His entire family fled to Montreal Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2017 #3

a number of confederates turned up in Quebec during and after the war Sen. Walter Sobchak Aug 2017 #2

Princess Turandot

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1. Yet another gift of those darling United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1957...

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:35 PM

Aug 2017

spreading the filth of the noble Lost Cause far and wide. Their excuse: a house once stood there where Davis briefly visited in 1867. (The plaque was attached to the building before Hudson Bay began to use it.)

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Sen. Walter Sobchak

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3. His entire family fled to Montreal

Reply to Princess Turandot (Reply #1)

Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:42 PM

Aug 2017

although they didn't stick around, he found the frosty reception from confederate and union widows and veterans warmer than winter in Montreal.

Sen. Walter Sobchak

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2. a number of confederates turned up in Quebec during and after the war

Reply to alp227 (Original post)

Tue Aug 15, 2017, 11:38 PM

Aug 2017

Some wanted to launch a Northern front against the Union and a lot, Davis included just wanted to disappear.

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