A plaque commemorating the passage of Jefferson Davis in Montreal withdrawn

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Tuesday, 15 August, 2017 21:32

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MONTREAL – a Few days after the events of Charlottesville, Virginia, in the Company of Hudson’s Bay has decided to remove a plaque paying tribute to the president of the confederate States of America, Jefferson Davis, who was placed on the trade of the centre town of Montreal.

According to CBC News, the plate has been withdrawn by employees in the early evening, Tuesday. The State channel had previously produced a report on the presence of this plaque in Montreal to pay homage to the controversial president Davis.

“To the memory of Jefferson Davis, president of the confederate States who stayed in 1867, at the home of John Loyell, then located at the present location. Plaque erected in 1957 by the Society of the United Daughters of the Confederacy”, could be read on the commemorative plaque.

Calls for the withdrawal of this plate had been circulated on the social networks these last few days, after the events of Charlottesville, where a woman was killed at a protest Saturday. Supporters of the extreme right and of the counter-demonstrators were faced, due to the announced withdrawal of a monument to confederate symbol of slavery to many Americans.