It is endearing and commendable that Quebec history is so well reflected in the names of the province’s voting districts. No fewer than 14 former Quebec premiers have constituencies named after them. So do colonial governors, saints, the assassinated federal MP D’Arcy McGee and the murdered Pierre Laporte, provincial cabinet ministers Paul Gérin-Lajoie and the author of oppressive legislation restraining the English language, Camille Laurin (also well-known for being apprehended shoplifting at an Eaton’s department store); the leaders of the movement for responsible government, Louis-Hippolyte Lafontaine and Robert Baldwin, along with prominent clergymen, two federal prime ministers from Quebec, Quebec’s first pharmacist, Louis Hebert, the distinguished botanist Marie-Victorin, the sporting hero of my youth Maurice Richard, Joseph Papineau Louis Riel, Pontiac, the poet Émile Nelligan and a number of distinguished French-Canadian explorers who scoped out this hemisphere from Hudson’s Bay to the Gulf of Mexico and from Cuba to the
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