From the archives: Bloomsday in Montreal – a day like any other

This story was first published on June 13, 2004, in the Montreal Gazette.
”Three Swallows.” Sir John Power & Son’s Three Swallows Irish Whisky is deliciously light, refreshing and invigorating. Distillers to His Majesty the King.
The Gazette, Thursday, June 16, 1904
It was just a brief advertisement in The Gazette that day. But in a way that neither the Dublin-based distiller nor readers in Montreal could possibly have imagined, it was a day with a difference, one that woul