On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote: > Thanks for looking and commenting Frank. I'm amazed you don't recognise > General Wolfe of Quebec, getting a taste of Canadian weather! He went to > school here in Greenwich, and is buried in St. Alfege's Church, which is the > main church in town (designed by Hawksmoor, carvings by another local boy > made good, Grinling Gibbons). He stands there now, next to the Old Royal > Observatory, with the finest view in all England. > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Wolfe
<snip> The Wikipedia article says he's considered a hero by many Canadians. Not so much in the Province of Quebec where I was brought up. Even in The Rest of Canada (TROC), while we all know who he is, he's not revered. I don't know of any statues or monuments in his honour anywhere in the country (although I'm sure there must be). I certainly wouldn't know him to see him. ;-) cheers, frank -- "Sharpness is a bourgeois concept." -Henri Cartier-Bresson -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
