The Hudson's Bay Company is removing a plaque from the company's flagship store in downtown Montreal that commemorates Jefferson Davis, who was president of the Confederate States during the U.S. Civil War.
"We are working this evening to have the plaque removed," wrote Tiffany Bourré, a spokesperson for HBC, in an email to CBC News Tuesday afternoon.
Calls to have the plaque removed emerged after a 32-year-old woman was killed in a deadly car attack on anti-racism protesters who were demonstrating against a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Va., on Saturday. The man charged in the attack idolized Nazis,
according to a former teacher.
The aftermath of the Charlottesville clashes have prompted many to look closer at Confederate monuments in their own neighbourhoods.
The Montreal plaque hangs on a wall of the HBC store on Union Avenue. Written in French, it says: "To the memory of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederate States, who lived in 1867 in the home of John Lovell, which was once here."
It goes on to say it was first placed there in 1957 by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, a non-profit women's group dedicated to celebrating Confederate history.