Parc de la capture d'Ethan Allen, aka, Ethan Allen Capture Park, ever heard of it?
I have, probably because I live next to a park that was given a dumb name when nobody was paying attention so I've developed an ear for such things.
That's the new name of an east side park in Montreal, so named in 2008.
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There's plans to put a beach just around there and so it's an increasingly-important area on the river.
Here's a few reasons why it doesn't make sense as a name.
1-Ethan Allen did not surrender at that spot in 1775. The building where he signed his surrender treaty now sits nearby. The structure had been preserved and transported to that location from further west but it's currently being used as a daycare, so it's not a place you can even really go. There's just a plaque.
2- It celebrates a minor skirmish, won by Guy Carlton, aka Dorchester, a Brit, whose team had recently beaten the French.
3-It's a tasteless insult to Vermonters, (not that I'm too upset with insulting Vermonters, they are very nice people, I'm told, but the ones I've dealt with have always been strangely unpleasant).
4-There are much worthier locals to celebrate, such as Sarah Maxwell, the schoolteacher who saved all those kids on Prefontaine St.
I have, probably because I live next to a park that was given a dumb name when nobody was paying attention so I've developed an ear for such things.
That's the new name of an east side park in Montreal, so named in 2008.
There's plans to put a beach just around there and so it's an increasingly-important area on the river.Here's a few reasons why it doesn't make sense as a name.
1-Ethan Allen did not surrender at that spot in 1775. The building where he signed his surrender treaty now sits nearby. The structure had been preserved and transported to that location from further west but it's currently being used as a daycare, so it's not a place you can even really go. There's just a plaque.
2- It celebrates a minor skirmish, won by Guy Carlton, aka Dorchester, a Brit, whose team had recently beaten the French.
3-It's a tasteless insult to Vermonters, (not that I'm too upset with insulting Vermonters, they are very nice people, I'm told, but the ones I've dealt with have always been strangely unpleasant).
4-There are much worthier locals to celebrate, such as Sarah Maxwell, the schoolteacher who saved all those kids on Prefontaine St.