On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 4:40 PM, frank theriault <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >
He's rather well liked out west. But so is William Lyon Mackenzie. -- M. Adam Maas http://www.mawz.ca Explorations of the City Around Us. -- 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.
