Parade to be back on Ste-Catherine
This year’s St Pat’s parade is returning to Ste-Catherine Street but it will be shorter than in other years.
Update: I am informed on Twitter that I should have written “parade to be back on stolen land.”
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Kate
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--- 21:33 on 2019-02-11 Permalink
Yes, please do make sure you include a land acknowledgement with every post. I could help you code a boilerplate in php to that affect:
“At Montreal City Weblog we acknowledge that we are on unceded Indigenous lands of the traditional territory of both the Kanien’kehá:ka, “Mohawk,” and the Anishinabeg, “Algonquin,” peoples.
We are grateful for the opportunity to gather here and we thank the many generations of
people who have taken care of this land and these waters. Tiohtiá:ke, Montreal, is historically known as a gathering place for diverse First Nations; thus, we recognize and deeply appreciate the historic and ongoing Indigenous connections to and presence on these lands and waters. We also recognize the contributions Métis, Inuit, and other Indigenous peoples have made in shaping and strengthening our communities.
Together, as a diverse blogging community, we commit to building a sincere relationship with Indigenous peoples based on respect, dignity, trust, and cooperation, in the process of advancing truth and reconciliation.”
Nice to see the parade back on St. Kitty.
Kate 21:40 on 2019-02-11 Permalink
I don’t think I could do that on every post, but I am going to make a page. Thanks, “- – -”
(I inquired whether Ste-Catherine was more stolen than de Maisonneuve. My Twitter interlocutor said no.)
Last year it was noted that the parade actually worked better going east to west, since the sun was illuminating the faces of the participants. I’ve observed before: there’s no reason for a parade to go in the same direction as conventional traffic, so it could conceivably go from east to west on Ste-Cat, although it isn’t going to this year.
Ian 22:05 on 2019-02-11 Permalink
It does seem strange to target the Irish as colonial oppressors as they were basically cheap labour that came here at their own expense after being similarly exploited by the Empire. Of course the same could be said of the Scottish with the Highland Clearances but they somehow managed to become the masters of Montreal with everything named after them. There was a native named Queen of the Parade some years back as I recall, to much wailing and wringing of hands by “traditional” Irish types about culture & ethnicity. In any case there is obviously more subtlety and need for discourse respecting contexts and parallel histories. Both the Irish and Native proponents see themselves as exclusively oppressed within reactionary contexts, which does nothing to facilitate dialogue between cultures or society as a whole.
As I recall the sun was better but it was facing the wind, which caused some problems. Might just have been the de Maisonneuve wind tunnel, which was especially fierce around Peel.
Kate 22:27 on 2019-02-11 Permalink
In 2004 there was a parade queen who was black, and that caused a bit of a stir. I don’t recall any native queen but that isn’t to say it hasn’t happened.