Beheading the Saint by Geneviève Zubrzycki

Author:Geneviève Zubrzycki [Zubrzycki, Geneviève]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, General, Canada, Post-Confederation (1867-), Social Science, Sociology, Religion, Christianity, Catholic
ISBN: 9780226391717
Google: DapSDQAAQBAJ
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2016-12-19T22:11:49+00:00

The next night, in Montréal, about 100,000 people attended a similar event.28 The following day, on the 25th, a parade and popular march were held in the streets of Montréal, following a new route. An estimated 200,000 people participated in the march. Its theme, “Thirty Years of Quiet Power,” commemorated the beginning of the Quiet Revolution. The parade opened with a striking symbol: a three-story-high “Trojan sheep,” pulled by twenty-four little St. Jean-Baptistes of different ethnic origins followed by dancing Aboriginal children (figure 4.7). The stated intent of the artist was to show the changing face of Québec: “A nation, like an individual, must exorcise its images to move on. The sheep is there to tell us that Québec society has evolved” (La Presse, June 19, 1990). The director of the committee in charge of the holiday explained to journalists that the sheep “is an extravagant allusion to our adult memory. It’s about the rehabilitation of a symbol that once was negative and to show that Québec regained strength.”29

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