Allison Hanes: Flying a new flag of hope

If there is a lasting legacy to Montreal’s 375th birthday extravaganza, let it be the new era of acknowledgment and respect for the city’s Indigenous people, heralded Tuesday amid much fanfare by Mayor Denis Coderre.
That would be a positive direction for Montreal to head in the future, and a constructive way to mark the history of a place that spans — not 375 years as all the signs and memorabilia proclaim — but millennia.
What is today the island of Montreal was once kn