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Story of sleeping car porters demonstrates Quebec's racist past

--November 20, 2017.

Quebec might not have had a system of whites-only signage, as in the southern United States during the Jim Crow era, or any immediate plans to build a wall to keep out our neighbours, but we do have a history of slavery and racism.

Vieux Montréal, vers 1860 / Old Montreal, c. 1860

Post Office / Bureau de poste, Notre-Dame-de-Grace (NDG), 1910

Festival Bloomsday Montreal (Irish Exhibition, McKibbon's Pub), June 2017

Greg Kelley, Quebec's Liaison with the Anglophone Community, stopped by the QAJM kiosk at the Bloomsday Festival in Montreal.

Gardenview Elementary School, Saint-Laurent (June 2017)

Quebec Heritage News Editor Rod MacLeod stopped by Gardenview Elementary School in Saint-Laurent this week to present the kids

Walk to the Rock (May 2017)

Walk to the Rock, Montreal, May 2017. (Photo - Sandra Stock)

You are Driving on Sacred Ground: Montreal's Irish Memorial Park

--March 20, 2017.

Most people driving into Montreal have no idea that the road exiting off the Victoria Bridge runs over the burial place for 6,000 Irish immigrants. Even most Montrealers are unaware of the significance of the large black stone sitting in the median at that same exit.