A petition calling for Montreal's Lionel-Groulx Metro station to be renamed after famed jazz pianist Oscar Peterson is gaining momentum. Peterson was born and raised in the Montreal neighborhood of Little Burgundy, steps away from where Lionel-Groulx Metro station is now located. Daisy Peterson Sweeney (left) taught her brother, Oscar Peterson, how to play the piano in Montreal’s Little Burgundy neighbourhood decades ago. "Just imagine being a Jewish Montrealer who had family members that died in the Holocaust and seeing that name over our Metro station as something to celebrate," Green said. But, he said, having his name on a Metro station is an entirely different story.

Source: CBC News June 20, 2020 21:22 UTC