Has anyone else been watching this miniseries? I watched the final (7th) episode Friday night which deals with the Lincoln Assassination and the manhunt, not only for John Wilkes Booth, but also for all of the other conspirators in Lincoln's murder. It's well worth the watch for anyone that might be interested, IMO.
What struck me from watching it is how many parallels there are between the political atmosphere at that time at the end of our nation's Civil War and in today's political culture, where we also had another, but lot lesser, attempt to overthrow our nation's government. It's kind of scary given with what is at stake in this fall's elections.
One of the things that was revealed in the miniseries is how much I didn't know about Canada's involvement in the Civil War, especially the city of Montreal, which seemed to have been a haven of Confederate spies, conspirators, and apologists, not to mention the moneyed interests which came to the aid of the South during the CW.
Not taking the miniseries account as "factual", I Googled some of the claims made and found that they were in reality probably more factual than the miniseries indicated. It seems that some of the South's leaders were considered as Rock Stars, in today's nomenclature. Jefferson Davis was given a half hour standing ovation at a public appearance he made in Montreal after being released on bail in the US in May of 1867.
And in 1957: the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a plaque on the west wall of the Hudson’s Bay department store on Union Street to pay tribute to the place where Davis and his family stayed in 1867 at what was then Lovell’s home.
In August 2017, prompted by objections from citizens and probing by journalists, the Bay was forced to unceremoniously remove the plaque that had adorned its flagship Montreal store for six decades. Bad enough Montreal’s elites treated the leader of the slave South as a hero. Why did a leading Canadian corporate empire keep honouring a slave leader well into the 21st century?
Anyway, I came across this tonight and thought I would share. Maybe, just maybe, some of the MAGA crowd of today can still find comfort in Canada, if they actually don't want to really go to Russia, when this country finally comes back to its senses?
https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...st-lincoln-in-montreal-city-of-southern-spies
What struck me from watching it is how many parallels there are between the political atmosphere at that time at the end of our nation's Civil War and in today's political culture, where we also had another, but lot lesser, attempt to overthrow our nation's government. It's kind of scary given with what is at stake in this fall's elections.
One of the things that was revealed in the miniseries is how much I didn't know about Canada's involvement in the Civil War, especially the city of Montreal, which seemed to have been a haven of Confederate spies, conspirators, and apologists, not to mention the moneyed interests which came to the aid of the South during the CW.
Not taking the miniseries account as "factual", I Googled some of the claims made and found that they were in reality probably more factual than the miniseries indicated. It seems that some of the South's leaders were considered as Rock Stars, in today's nomenclature. Jefferson Davis was given a half hour standing ovation at a public appearance he made in Montreal after being released on bail in the US in May of 1867.
And in 1957: the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected a plaque on the west wall of the Hudson’s Bay department store on Union Street to pay tribute to the place where Davis and his family stayed in 1867 at what was then Lovell’s home.
In August 2017, prompted by objections from citizens and probing by journalists, the Bay was forced to unceremoniously remove the plaque that had adorned its flagship Montreal store for six decades. Bad enough Montreal’s elites treated the leader of the slave South as a hero. Why did a leading Canadian corporate empire keep honouring a slave leader well into the 21st century?
Anyway, I came across this tonight and thought I would share. Maybe, just maybe, some of the MAGA crowd of today can still find comfort in Canada, if they actually don't want to really go to Russia, when this country finally comes back to its senses?
https://montrealgazette.com/news/lo...st-lincoln-in-montreal-city-of-southern-spies
