Under the arrow, you will have noticed the condition of the construction of the Monument Price, to the wharf of Chicoutimi, at the turn of the year 1881-1882 Monument and Price cultural policy Saguenay
next week between Christmas and St. John the Baptist and the Canadian Confederation, the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean welcome within its walls the descendants of William Price, first name, came to celebrate the bicentennial of color to their ancestor's arrival on Canadian soil. Under the circumstance, it was careful to dust off the record of the restoration of smoking family monument, built in 1882 on the Rocher de la Vella, the epicenter of the history of the city of Chicoutimi. It will be recalled that in the fall of 2004, the case had managed to warm the memory citizen who has not forgotten the abuse suffered by their ancestors forest to the "golden age" of Price!
In those days, let us remember fast facts for one reason and another, the City Hall Saguenay cherished project to move the monument to the roundabout Talbot-Jacques-Cartier. Conservation of historical heritage the idea was not only bad, it was politically inept and socially unhealthy because it allowed to unite in a single-chain still rusty-suffering of the past, perpetrated under the yoke of Price, and the collapse of the forestry industry fatally drawn into the global turmoil.
For Councillor Jacques Fortin, through the power of his election, has inherited the responsibility of safeguarding the heritage in Chicoutimi, while the city of Saguenay, so missed the boat and could not make the movement "the most beautiful monument (Price) to be placed there" , c is because "people have of politics. "That a sentence that is not to reconcile with the elect, who was hoisted to the top of the Chicoutimi Pulp and became the" superintendent "of the conservation and enhancement of the Municipal Heritage in distress.
This dual mandate is in the same bed policy and culture. Is it not, however, the response of a municipal council who played badly abused centralizing its discomfort with the cultural genius of the patient's creators faced a weak policy?
Culture and politics, how can we imagine separate from each other in a changing world? How can we, in full knowledge of the facts and intellectual honesty, support the absurd idea that politics is not interested in culture? Hogwash!
The erection of the monument Price was in his day, an eminently political act. Whatever praise which are engraved in loving memory of this illustrious family, the fact remains that this monument was erected to show the culture of enslavement of a people against the power of conquering English. Today in ruins, devastated by this symbol time from top to bottom reflects the poor state wades culture in Saguenay. A city that was not even fucking keep his legendary name, the most beautiful cultural heritage that we had left yet history! A city that never took care to preserve its historical buildings! A city that does ends in agony over the peak of the wrecker favored by the absence of a coherent cultural policy, a city should be concerned with the preservation of relics of its past and rightly appreciative of the inexhaustible genius of its creators that it owes a heavy price ...
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