Salvation through Harmony in Montreal
on Jan 09 in Doing Business with a Conscience, Interoperable Communications posted communications operability, interoperability by Jeff Jacobson
“Salvation through Harmony” is Montreal’s motto and appears on the city’s coat of arms intended to illustrate that different communities have co-existed in harmony for nearly 400 years: a fleur de lis for the French, a rose for the English, a thistle for the Scots, a shamrock for the Irish, and a beaver for the Canadians.
First, the Amerindians and the French coexisted — then the British, the Scottish, the Irish, the East Europeans, Italians, Greeks and now people from every continent … and today the Montreal School Board welcomes children born in 188 different countries. Talk about interoperability!
