Hello Bennett,
Thank you the informative message. I really love the Guerilla Plaques.  It
adds to our historical knowledge and avoids pretending that throughout
history people's ideas lined up with many of the values of 2020.

On Sat., Sep. 19, 2020, 6:29 p.m. Bennett McCardle, <
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> I enjoyed Paul LItt's Champlain Society article about the guerrilla
> historical plaques calling out historical figures responsible for slavery
> or slaveowning in Ontario. (See
> https://champlainsociety.utpjournals.press/findings-trouvailles/2020/09/attack-of-the-guerilla-plaques?mobileUi=0&
> )
>
> I was also amused that Paul -- my esteemed and very competent former
> colleagues at Ontario's Ministry of Culture, before he moved to academic
> life -- didn't flag that he was in fact the public servant responsible for
> the *official* version of this plaque program at the Ontario Heritage
> Foundation (now the Ontario Heritage Trust) for a considerable time before
> the turn of this century.
>
> He's now at liberty to critique its approach, and finally has an
> opportunity to do so.
>
> - Bennett McCardle
>    Toronto, Ontario
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