The city’s controversial decision to rename Vimy Park after former Quebec Premier Jacques Parizeau was made official this afternoon.
Outremont Mayor Marie Cinq-Mars along with councillors from the borough held a small naming ceremony at the park.
Montreal city council voted to rename Vimy Park back in June. The vote passed with 51 in favour and only two against.
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.
Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said the city would create two public spaces next year to remember the battles of both Vimy Ridge and Dieppe.
On September 25 Coderre announced that a portion of NDG park would be renamed to honour the soldiers who died in the Battle of Vimy Ridge.
The portion of the park will be known as Vimy Place, after the infamous World War I battle. The area will also be renovated, with work to be completed next April.
