Essay On Richard Riot

Archives CBC. Richard Asks the Population to Calm Down. Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. October 21, 2009. February 4, 2016
During the aftermath of the Richard Riot during March 17, 1955 Maurice Richard speaks on the radio to try and calm the heated spirits of French Canadians. Richard tells the crowd to "Do no more harm. Get behind the team in the playoffs. I will take my punishment and come back next year and help the club and the younger players to win the Cup." The riot was sparked by the season long suspension placed on Richard after a confrontation with an NHL official. More than just a hockey player Maurice Richard had become a symbol of the French-Canadian people. In this sense, the suspension imposed by the NHL’s President Clarence

Predominately an English speaking paper it indicated the general reaction of the Anglophone population in Canada. Dink Carroll began his Montreal Gazette column, “I am ashamed of my city.” He seemed to speak for the majority of all the Anglophones. “This is not who we are.” The article describes the details of the riot. Over 10,000 people poured outside of the Montreal Forum after a tear gas bomb had been set off during the hockey game. The NHL’s president Clarence Campbell was attacked during the game. The crowd had overwhelmed law and order. They pulled down road signs. They smashed windows of the congested streetcars. They toppled telephone booths and lit newspaper kiosks on fire. They heaved bricks from a nearby construction site through the Forum windows. The aftermath left a costly amount of damage done and fear spread across the

This book sums up Richard’s life very well. It tells how he grew up in a working class family and how he became a professional hockey player. It portrays him as a proud and humble man. It describes how Richard’s off the ice behavior sparked a revolution. French-Canadian revolutionist cried “We have our French state. And we will age our French country, a country that will carry its soul on its face” (Foran 37). The cry for reform had begun. The courage of one player had inspired his people. (Foran 38). The books also emphasizes Richards rise to stardom and is everlasting impact on French-Canadians to this very day.
Howell, Colin. "Richard, Maurice 'Rocket' (1921-2000)." Oxford Companion to Canadian History (2006): 544-. Print.
An encyclopedia entry for Canadian hockey player Maurice Richard is presented. It states that Richard played for eighteen years for the Montreal Canadiens in Quebec, from 1942 to 1930, scoring 544 regular season goals and eighty-two more in playoff competition. A list of the awards he received is included. It notes that over 100,000 people paid their respects as his body lay in state, after his death in 2000, while thousands more lined the streets in a state funeral procession that wended its way through the streets to Old Montreal,