Revisiting history: opening old wounds or recognizing uncomfortable truths?
Kamouraska, Que., will soon be commemorating the 1759 burning of thousands of homes and barns by British General James Wolfe. But should it?

KAMOURASKA, QUE.—My great-grandmother was a bigot. Born in Quebec City in the mid-19th century, she had never set foot in Ireland, but she held to the anti-Catholic prejudice her Ulster Protestant parents inculcated in her.
She forbade my grandfather from marrying into a wealthy and po...
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