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The night of May 4, 1971, François Richard of Saint-Jean Vianney in Quebec’s Saguenay Region, was glued to his TV set. It was Game 1 of the Stanley Cup finals, Jean Béliveau leading the Montreal Canadiens against the Chicago Blackhawks.
It was a close game Chicago would end up winning 2-1 in overtime when Richard heard shouting outside. He went out to investigate and was stunned by what he saw. A section of town, larger than the area of Dow’s Lake, was disappearing into the Shipshaw River.
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The City of Montreal has changed its stand and announced a pedestrian walkway on the sciences campus of the Université de Montréal will be named after the late Parti Québécois cabinet minister Camille Laurin.
In a message posted on her Twitter account, Mayor Valérie Plante said she would follow the suggestion of the Société d’histoire d’Outremont and ask that the walkway be renamed after Laurin, known as the father of Quebec’s language charter.
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It seems like almost yesterday, but it was 23 years ago this week when a crowd of 3,500 filled St. Patrick’s Basilica for the funeral of Nick Auf der Maur, Not exactly a saint by biblical standards, but the politico, journo and boulevardier could always draw a crowd.
Following the funeral, the throngs, reinforced by a New Orleans-style jazz band, snaked their way from St. Patrick’s to Crescent St. for a final goodbye at the Sir Winston Churchill Pub, Auf der Maur’s office/watering hole.
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We called it an inferno of snow.
Author of the article: Hayley Juhl • Montreal Gazette
Publishing date: Mar 04, 2021 • March 4, 2021 • 4 minute read • It was nearly impossible to get around Montreal during the snowstorm of March 1971 unless you had a snowmobile. Many of the vehicles were borrowed by police officers. Montreal Gazette file photo
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