From the archives: Raising the Union Jack

This story was first published on Sept. 4, 2010, in the Montreal Gazette.
“A feu d’artifice and general illumination was therefore agreed upon and put in operation … to the satisfaction of a large number of spectators.”The Gazette, Saturday, Sept. 8, 1860
Much attention focused in 2009 on the Battle of the Plains of Abraham, which took place 250 years ago last September [note: this is a 2010 story]. Far less is being made of an event more directly involving Montreal, the