Montreal city council has officially voted to rename Vimy Park in honour of former Quebec premier Jacques Parizeau.
“It’s clear he was a great Outremontais,” said Coderre Monday.
The vote passed with 51 in favour and only two against. Projet Montreal councillor Sterling Downey told CTV Montreal on Monday that he would be voting against the measure.
NDG councillor Jeremy Searle also voted against it.
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said the city would create two public spaces next year to remember the battles of both Vimy Ridge and Dieppe.
Parizeau was premier of Quebec from 1994 to 1996 and lived across the street from the park, which already has a monument to his first wife, Alice Parizeau.
The park had been known as Vimy Park since 1933, but Montreal's Toponymy Commission said despite the name appearing on maps and in city documents, the name was never officially registered.
