Is the city snubbing Camille Laurin?
Denise Bombardier gets it up her nose about the city snubbing Camille Laurin by not naming a street after him.
There’s a bust of Laurin right on Sherbrooke Street, in the pocket park at St‑Urbain, kitty corner to the SSJB, a corner passed daily by hundreds if not thousands of people, in non-pandemic times, including many McGill and UQÀM students. That’s about the opposite of a snub.
And Bombardier cannot really be such a fool. She knows that Montreal city hall can’t be roped into divisive nationalist gestures, and naming a street for Laurin would fall into that category. However, it stirs the Quebecor pot.
dhomas 09:49 on 2021-04-18 Permalink
There’s a (very small) “rue Camille-Laurin” in RDP:
https://maps.app.goo.gl/v1f4FxLbqPiTdhwy7
There’s also a school named after him:
https://camille-laurin.cssdm.gouv.qc.ca/
He was born in Charlemagne, QC, and yet that city has not named any streets after him.
Kate 13:46 on 2021-04-18 Permalink
And yet, according to Google Maps, Charlemagne named Highway 344 “Boulevard Celine-Dion” where it goes through the town.
qatzelok 19:14 on 2021-04-18 Permalink
Boul. Céline Dion is a pizza place, a muffler joint, and clusters of generic bungalows. Camille Laurin was right to wait for a higher-quality urban street.
Kate 10:20 on 2021-04-19 Permalink
There’s no street with a French CEGEP and a jail, though.
SMD 11:06 on 2021-04-19 Permalink
Gouin Boulevard has both the Cégep Gérald-Godin and Bordeaux prison on it…
Kate 11:46 on 2021-04-19 Permalink
True! But would we want to cancel Lomer Gouin in favour of Camille Laurin?
qatzelok 12:44 on 2021-04-19 Permalink
On the upside, changing “Gouin” to “Godin” could be done with a black permanent marker and step ladder.
So it has the potential of not going over budget.