File:Nelson's Column, Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, Quebec (29440142674).jpg
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Nelson's Column (French: colonne Nelson) is a monument erected in 1809 in Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, which is dedicated to the memory of Admiral Horatio Nelson, following his death at the Battle of Trafalgar. Subsequent to the destruction of Nelson's Pillar in Dublin (1808–1966), Montreal's pillar now stands as the second-oldest "Nelson's Column" in the world, after the Nelson Monument in Glasgow. It is also the city's oldest monument and is the oldest war monument in Canada. Since neither the French Revolution nor Napoleon had been popular among the French in Montreal, and contrary to later belief, the public funds raised for building the monument were collected from both British and French Montrealers alike. As a monument which may be seen as celebrating a British victory over France in a city that is predominantly French-speaking, it has garnered its share of controversy. In 1890, a Quebec sovereigntist faction plotted to blow up the column. In 1930, francophone Montrealers responded to Nelson's presence by erecting a statue in a nearby city square (now known as Vauquelin Square), commemorating Jean Vauquelin, a French Naval officer who fought during the Seven Years' War. Still, many French Canadians continued to object to Nelson's presence. In 1997, the City of Montreal proposed moving the monument to a distant Anglophone district, but public opposition kept Montreal's oldest monument in its original place. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Column%2C_Montreal" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nelson's_Column%2C_Montreal</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_Attribution-ShareAlike_3.0_Unported_License" rel="noreferrer nofollow">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Text_of_Creative_Commons_...</a> |
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Source | Nelson's Column, Place Jacques-Cartier, Montreal, Quebec |
Author | Ken Lund from Reno, Nevada, USA |
Camera location | 45° 30′ 30.32″ N, 73° 33′ 13.72″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 45.508422; -73.553810 |
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