"Like Richard, the [Sun Life] building was a symbol, in its case of English domination of Montreal, a bastion like the one it physically resembles. In Richard's day, it also happened to house the offices of the National Hockey League, when that league was still dominated by English Canadians. So it was from the building that in 1955, the league's English-speaking president, Clarence Campbell, handed down the suspension that, perhaps even more than Richard's feats on the ice, earned him his place in Quebec history." The funny thing about history and Canadians is that one solitude knows too much and other too little...