{"id":4036,"date":"2009-02-17T14:18:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-17T19:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spacingtoronto.ca\/2009\/02\/17\/quebec-re-enactment-battle-cancelled-due-to-threats-separatists\/"},"modified":"2009-02-18T12:02:12","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T17:02:12","slug":"quebec-re-enactment-battle-cancelled-due-to-threats-separatists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/17\/quebec-re-enactment-battle-cancelled-due-to-threats-separatists\/","title":{"rendered":"Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/thumb\/4\/4f\/Benjamin_West_005.jpg\/800px-Benjamin_West_005.jpg\" height=\"351\" width=\"499\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been talking with folks organizing the bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812. One of the possible events I&#8217;m most excited about is the re-enactment of the Battle of York when the Americans invaded our sleepy town. Re-enactors would come ashore around Marilyn Bell Park near Jameson and Lake Shore, and battle across the CNE grounds towards Fort York (hopefully the looting of the city will not happen this time around). If I had my way, we&#8217;d also re-enact burning down the White House as well as host a zombie walk of dead British and American soldiers too, but we&#8217;ll see if those things ever happens.<\/p>\n<p>So it was interesting (and slightly ironic) to read today that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090217.wPOLabraham0217\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">the battle of words between federalist and separatist factions<\/a> has led to the cancellation of the re-enactment of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Battle_of_the_Plains_of_Abraham\">Battle of the Plains of Abraham<\/a>. This year marks the 250th anniversary of the defining moment in the Brit&#8217;s attempt to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Seven_Years%27_War\">take over New France<\/a>, which led to the eventual creation of Canada.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/servlet\/story\/RTGAM.20090217.wPOLabraham0217\/BNStory\/politics\/home\">Globe and Mail article<\/a> says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>For weeks a war of words erupted in newspapers, on the web and on open line radio shows where extremists on both sides threatened to use violence to either stop next summer&#8217;s re-enactment from taking place or protect it against disruptions.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> It appeared as though a modern version of the Plains of Abrahams battle was in the making, which led the head of the federal agency known as the National Battlefields Commission Andr&eacute; Juneau to back down from his idea to re-enact the 1759 French defeat at the hands of the British.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Given the excessive language in the past few days and the threats mad through the media, we could no as responsible agency compromise the security of families and children who could attend the event,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Juneau said in cancelling the event. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It was odious and unreasonable to have suggested that the Commission planned to celebrate a military defeat.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Mr. Juneau said that separatists should carry the blame of the cancellation of the event because of the threat they made to disrupt the event. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153They have to carry the responsibility for what they said,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Mr. Juneau said, refusing to express any regrets for the controversial proposal to hold the re-enactment.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> Quebec&#8217;s historical corps with its hundreds of volunteers was poised to re-enact the historical battle and had nothing but harsh words against the vocal separatists who led the battle to have the even cancelled.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been talking with folks organizing the bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812. 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Re-enactors would come ashore around Marilyn Bell Park near Jameson and Lake<a href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/17\/quebec-re-enactment-battle-cancelled-due-to-threats-separatists\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"sr-only\">&#8220;Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[457,1814,313,11482,11483,6657,21,819,314,7734,496],"class_list":["post-4036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-canada","tag-fort-york","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-head-of-the-federal-agency","tag-juneau","tag-marilyn-bell-park","tag-other-cities","tag-quebec","tag-the-globe-and-mail","tag-white-house","tag-york"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats - Spacing Toronto<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/spacing.ca\/toronto\/2009\/02\/17\/quebec-re-enactment-battle-cancelled-due-to-threats-separatists\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Quebec re-enactment battle cancelled due to threats - Spacing Toronto\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Over the last few weeks I&#8217;ve been talking with folks organizing the bicentennial celebrations of the War of 1812. 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