Bishop Jehoshaphat Mountain after whom Jehoshaphat Street is named. Err. Just kidding, Mountain Street is named after him, although many deny it.
So was Bishop.
He was the first Anglican Bishop of this jurisdiction. He was instrumental also in founding Bishop's College as well as McGill University. He was apparently quite a kick ass guy, would go far into the bush to deal with savage natives and got his son to pretty crazy work pulling Irish immigrants off the boat if they were sick and putting them in quarantine, which probably also risked an occasional ass kicking.
Possible Bishop Jehoshaphat Mountain (or his son Bishop Jacob), after whom Bishop and possibly Mountain streets are named. When history was rewritten, the language police thought Mountain referred to Mount Royal and and Bishop was somebody's name, so they francicized the wrong word.
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Graeme Decarie?
ReplyDeleteI don't recognize the guy, but the second pic is Pierre Berton's hair.
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ReplyDelete...On the other hand if they'd translated Bishop, we'd've had a rue l'Evêque. Might've been confusing.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of Keith Moon, I chuckled when I stumbled onto this 1973 Gazoo article the other night.
ReplyDeleteI found an article from about 1972 about a promoter promising that the upcoming Sly and the Family Stone Concert would actually take place. It seems they had been slated to appear twice before and both times Sly was too fucked up to take the stage.
ReplyDeleteDrummond is named after William Henry Drummond who was a doctor, poet and, apparently, just a heck of a guy. His poetry is mostly in faux-habitant Henglish, like (ahem):
ReplyDelete"But I tole you - dat's true - I don't go on de city
If you geev de fine house an' beaucoup d'arpent -
I rader be stay me, an' spen' de las' day me
On farm by de rapid dat's call Cheval Blanc"
No wonder they named a street after him. That's pure gold!
Sly was stoned on the Dick Cavett show shortly before Sly was arrested for cocaine.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the street was named after the Bishop piece in the game of chess. It was never francified, since in French, this piece is called "le fou" (the fool, or the jester).
ReplyDeleteBishop Mountain house is a building (esteemed edifice surely?) at Bishop's University in Lennoxville Qc.
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