Montreal has the nice tradition (familiar in Paris too) of naming some subway stations after distinguished Montrealers: Henri-Bourassa, Jean-Drapeau, Georges-Vanier, the poet Octave Crémazie, and -- historians gotta love it -- Lionel-Groulx. (What chance Toronto would name subway stations Donald Creighton or Margaret Atwood?)
But the Montreal system also has a nice melange of historic names back to Radisson, Cadillac, Frontenac, and Jean-Talon. No First-Nations names at all, Wood notes, not even Hochelaga. No doubt he will have fun with such Montrealers as Peel and Pie-IX.
Who or what was Angrignon, anyway? Sam, we will wait and see.
(Map in detail here.)
