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Can Montreal s Chinatown survive? WEEKEND READ | Real estate development threatens to erase 200 years of history and buildings that are decades older than city records show. Author of the article: Marian Scott • Montreal Gazette Publishing date: May 22, 2021 • 2 hours ago • 13 minute read • At the Chinese Association of Montreal, which has owned its three-storey stone headquarters since 1920, there’s a firm resolve to stay put. “Our building is not for sale,” says the association’s vice-president Bryant Chang, left, with director Bill Wong. Photo by Pierre Obendrauf /Montreal Gazette Article content As he showed a reporter around the Chinese Association of Montreal at 110-112 de la Gauchetière St. W., Bryant Chang made one thing perfectly clear: ....
By David Paulsen Posted 3 hours ago The memorial honoring Bishop Leonidas Polk is visible on the wall to the left of the altar behind the choir at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Augusta, Georgia. Photo: St. Paul’s Episcopal Church [Episcopal News Service] A memorial plaque on the back wall near the choir and to the left of the altar at St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in Augusta, Georgia, has long paid tribute to a controversial Episcopalian who likely never set foot in the church. Leonidas Polk was an Episcopal bishop, but not from Georgia. He was a general in the Confederate Army, killed by Union artillery fire in fighting northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, nowhere near Augusta. St. Paul’s hosted his funeral in 1864 because the ongoing war prevented the return of his body to Louisiana. Polk, buried for nearly 80 years at St. Paul’s, isn’t buried there anymore; in 1945, his remains were exhumed and reinterred at Christ Church Cathedral in New Orleans, the ....
The luxurious garden of Sa Maison in Floriana has attracted the nib of various writers, foremost among whom Comm. Edgar Montanaro and Ġużè Cassar Pullicino. They start with an early owner Chevalier Caille Maison who, presumably in the 18th century, used the site as his hunting lodge, and from whom the name of Sa Maison was derived. From various sources, it can be established that the history of Sa Maison goes much further back. It was founded in the 17th century by Fra Giovanni Minucci, who entered the Italian Langue of the Order of St John on November 6, 1670. Not long after, he acquired a tract of land bordered on three sides by stately bastions overlooking from Floriana the harbour of Marsamscetto. In order to enjoy the beauty of the site in his restful repose, he built a house ‘casamento’ in his large garden. It seems that he owned the land on an emphyteutical lease for a number of years. ....