'Like a Thread of Gold'. Tracing Alfred Perry’s Lifelong Engagement with Montreal’s Politics of Ethnic Confrontation
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'Like a Thread of Gold'. Tracing Alfred Perry’s Lifelong Engagement with Montreal’s Politics of Ethnic Confrontation
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Alfred Perry (1820-1900), a proud Tory "loyalist" and captain of the "Hook, Ladder and Hose," a volunteer fire brigade, participated in the ransacking and burning of the Parliament Building, then located in Montreal, on April 25, 1849. The building was sacked during a riot following the passage of the Rebellion Losses Bill. Perry later admitted to using the fire brigade's equipment to smash open the doors of the building, and to participating in the ransacking, to assaulting the sergeant-at-arms, and (accidently) breaking the gas line that set the building ablaze. He went on the become the fire commissioner for Montreal. In 1881, with a group of the city's Protestant clergy and Anglophone citizens, Perry founded the Protestant Hospital for the Insane, later renamed the Verdun Protestant Hospital, then the Douglas Hospital, and in 2006, the Douglas Mental Health University Institute.
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Engaging with Diversity : Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality from Quebec
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Diversitas
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Bruxelles, Belgique
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Peter Lang
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2018
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327-346
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en
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Horner, Daniel. “‘Like a Thread of Gold’. Tracing Alfred Perry’s Lifelong Engagement with Montreal’s Politics of Ethnic Confrontation.” In Engaging with Diversity : Multidisciplinary Reflections on Plurality from Quebec, edited by Stéphan Gervais, Raffaele Iacovino, and Mary Anne Poutanen, 327–346. Diversitas. Bruxelles, Belgique: Peter Lang, 2018.
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