Québec New York 2001: 9/11’s Lost Exposition
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- Опубликовано: 12 сен 2024
- Two years of preparation. Two months of events. $15 million in expenses. Québec New York 2001 was set to be the most spectacular and creative expression of French-Canadian art and technology the world had yet seen. Its organizers envisioned an ambitious state-wide cultural festival that would redefine what Québec meant to her neighbors - and to the future. And it would all culminate in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan, in the shadow of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.
The day is Monday, September 10th.
This is the incredible true story of Québec New York 2001.
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VIDEO
• QNY2001
ARTICLES
*Carter, Michelle. “Kingston to celebrate flotilla from Quebec,” Poughkeepsie Journal, August 25, 2001.
*Chambers, Gretta. “Attack on New York deeply felt in Quebec,” The Leader-Post, October 16, 2001.
*Donnelly, Pat. “The French invasion,” The Gazette, September 1, 2001.
*Donnelly, Pat. “Quebec showcase might be shelved,” The Gazette, September 12, 2001.
*Donnelly, Pat. “Lepage’s N.Y. show canceled,” The Gazette, September 13, 2001.
*Donnelly, Pat. “Harrowing visit for Quebec delegation,” The Gazette, September 14, 2001.
*Dougherty, Kevin. “Landry offers shelter, hospitals,” The Gazette, September 12, 2001.
*Friede, Eva. “When the show can’t go on,” The Gazette, September 18, 2001.
*Gouveia, Georgette. “Exhibit proves bronze is first-rate,” The Journal News, September 13, 2001.
*Griffin, John. “Metropolis gets working over,” The Gazette, October 21, 2001.
*Heinrich, Jeff. “Quebecers come home from drama in New York,” The Gazette, September 14, 2001.
*Kurtz, Robert. “Shared heritage brings visit,” The Post-Star, August 17, 2001.
*McCord, Jason. “Flotilla from Quebec to arrive Thursday,” The Post-Star, August 15, 2001.
*Perusse, Bernard. “First trip to Big Apple a nightmare,” The Gazette, September 14, 2001.
*Perusse, Bernard. “12,000 at star-studded benefit,” The Gazette, September 29, 2001.
*Phaneuf, Ingrid. “Taking a bite of the Big Apple,” The Gazette, August 10, 2001.
*Shapley, Dan. “Cultures converge in Kingston,” Poughkeepsie Journal, September 2, 2001.
*Sturdevant, Matthew. “Technology under sail,” The Post-Star, August 20, 2001.
*Thompson, Maury. “Flotilla plans local stops,” The Post-Star, July 30, 2001.
ONLINE ARTICLES
*Boulanger, Luc. “Quebec New York 2001: Operation Seduction,” Voir, June 6, 2001. voir.ca/scene/...
*Germain, Nicole. “Memories of September 2001,” Radio-Canada, September 6, 2021. ici.radio-cana...
*Hays, Matthew. “Bad timing leaves Quebec stranded in New York,” The Globe and Mail, October 9, 2001, www.theglobean...
*Lefkowitz, David and Diane Snyder. “NYC Quebec Festival, Lepage Premiere Aborted Owing to Terrorist Attack,” Playbill, September 19, 2001. playbill.com/a...
*Le Devoir, “Economie et Culture,” Numerique, September 8-9, 2001. numerique.banq...
*Vanno, Philip A. “Quebec-New York seeks to form bond with entertainment,” The Record, August 24, 2001. www.troyrecord...
UNCREDITED ARTICLES
“$15 million for New York show,” The Gazette, May 31, 2001.
“Events Schedule,” Newsday, September 9, 2001.
“Follow The Footsteps,” Newsday, September 14, 2001.
“Quebec celebrities raise money for Red Cross,” CBC, September 29, 2001.
“Quebec New York (Advertisement),” The Gazette, September 1, 2001.
“Quebec New York: A Show For Life,” The Gazette, September 22, 2001.
“Quebec New York Cancelled,” Asbury Park Press, September 22, 2001.
“N.B. premier Lord stranded in Manhattan,” The Gazette, September 12, 2001.
“Red Cross benefit set,” The Gazette, September 22, 2001.
WEBSITES
*Debates of Oct. 1st, 2001, openparliament.ca, openparliament...
*Growth and Risk, Quebec-New-York, 2001, CIAC.ca, ciac.ca/growth-...
*Quebec In The USA, (archived) web.archive.or...
*Quebecnewyork.com (archived), web.archive.or...
Fantastic video! Your research and in depth approach to lost story lines is always appreciated. My girlfriend and I visited the world financial center in 2023. It’s been rebuilt as a beautiful shopping and public space. Perfect venue for something like this event. We enjoyed our time there and marveled at the incredible winter garden.
This feels like the start of a "Lost story lines of 2001 in general" style series.
Great video. For a lot of people, the Quebec New York signs were some of the last things they saw. It's like being closer to those people by reviving this story and the knowledge and effort that was in place at that moment
I just rewatched this video in commemoration of the 23rd anniversary of the 9/11 Attacks, and I cannot say enough how fantastic of a job you did on this video, Brock!
You did an amazing job with the research on this exposition in describing what it was and how it had so much potential to do so much good for both the US and Canada had the events of that truly terrible day(Which you covered in a very respectful manner) not occurred. The fact that Quebec New York 2001 is rarely talked about is very surprising given how this involved multiple countries, how close to the WTC it was, and how many people who were involved in this that had stories about their survival and memories of the attacks that have yet to be heard to this day.
I also recently discovered something very interesting related to “Zulu Time”: According to editor Don Shewey(Who edited the New York Times article about the play that you mentioned near the end of the video), while attending the 2002 Montreal Jazz Festival about nine months after the attacks, he attended a showing of “Zulu Time”, which was performing for four weeks at the festival. Shewey mentioned how the performance he went to had left in the airport terrorism part as if 9/11 had not happened, which is crazy to think about.
Here’s a link to the article/blogpost on Shewey’s website describing this:
www.donshewey.com/theater_reviews/zulu_time.html#:~:text=The%20disorienting%20nature%20of%20air,mastermind%20Robert%20Lepage%20in%20collaboration
Thank you - this was a challenging project in many ways, not the least of which being how difficult it is to find new information on the subject. And thank you for the articles. I had a hard time finding the September 16th NYT piece, which I see is also linked in the one you sent. Definitely eye opening to see what became of "Zulu Time" after the attacks.
Great video on an overlooked aspect of 9/11 Brock, a fascinating yet chilling look at how much higher the death toll on that day could have been. Given the time difference between the UK (where I'm from) and Eastern Standard Time, the first plane struck the North Tower of WTC at 1:46PM my time, meaning that like many UK school kids at the time, I was blissfully unaware of what happened until I got home from school and saw the horrifying pictures. Those images haunted my nightmares for years afterwards, and it was small wonder that reporters at the time (from the UK) said that the scale of the attacks were more like "an act of war".
The main thing I'll never forget is the sheer outpouring of support and sympathy for the United States after 9/11. Being a fellow Motorsport fan, I remember the first Formula One race after 9/11, the Italian Grand Prix at Monza. Many teams ran with tributes of some kind, some had an American flag painted on their car, but Ferrari's was the most moving in my view. In place of the usual Marlboro Cigarette sponsorship logos, amongst others, Ferrari removed all sponsor logos from their cars and painted the nose cones black as a mark of respect to those killed on that horrible day. The tributes continued the following race at Indy, where the Schumacher brothers had the American flag painted on to their helmets
Thank you so much. I haven't followed F1 that closely, and hadn't thought about that sport's response to the attacks. That's tremendous.
@@LASTCARonBROCK for me though, looking back, the Motorsport that probably had the hardest weekend was CART. They were in Germany for what was originally billed as the German 500 at the Eurospeedway Lausitz. Commentator Paul Page summed it up by saying that the teams wanted to go home but couldn't at that point (due to the temporary ban on flights entering US Airspace), Taps and Amazing Grace was played before the race and if that wasn't tough enough, fan favourite Alex Zanardi had his near fatal, life changing accident where he lost his legs. Nobody was in the mood for celebrating that day, not even race winner Kenny Brack
I’d absolutely love to see more non nascar content from you on here, you’re easily one of the best documentarians on RUclips and this video really shows it!
Thanks! I'm glad this video wasn't too jarring with my other content. I just started looking into it in September, and it kind of took on a life of its own. I'll definitely keep that in mind if something else captures my attention in that way.
Great video Brock, lost/cancelled 9/11 media or events is a really interesting topic
Amazing work Brock. I enjoy your videos, NASCAR & others. I remember that day vividly.
Fantastic video Brock. I learned something new today and now know what Quebec-New York was. Plus, had some time to reflect on the world that was before and after 9/11. Still makes me sad. #NeverForget
Fantastic video! I’ve always loved your racing content and I have a weird obsession with 9/11 and it’s consequences and I learned a lot thanks to your amazing work!
PS: as a Frenchman I must say your French is quite good !
Thank you very much! And that is high praise on the language. I took French courses back in college for my English degree, but hadn't really brushed up on it in almost 20 years.
Thank you for your work on this and on your work to cover aspects of nascar that are often overlooked
You're very welcome. I think that's what struck me about this topic - how something can take place in plain sight, even in such a massive story as the events of 9/11 were, yet still not be widely publicized. I'd seen shots of that "quebecnewyork" banner and just thought it was another ad, like so many in New York. But that turned out to be the tip of the iceberg.
Never forget.
The play that was supposed to go with the exposition has got to be one of the most awkward moments ever
To be fair, they didn't know that a similar event would take place much sooner then later. Especially just days before the event was supposed to start in New York City.
@@stephenholloway6893 true, I don't think anyone could have predicted that Islamic terrorists would actually hijack and purposely crash multiple airplanes
Isn't that uncanny? One of the details that, in retrospect, just feels entirely different. It just goes to show that we really don't know what the future holds, or if we may find ourselves in the middle of history.
You could be a documentarian the likes of Ken Burns or Werner Herzog with your ability to engage a listener with the telling of untold/undertold stories. Im so glad you use this ability to tell the stories of a sport i love, and should use it to tell us about other stories we should know, but havent been given a voice yet. Please continue to make videos about anything you feel needs to be known
This is a real pity, just imagine being an organizer of an event you put all your effort and have big expectations for it, and just see your dream crumble in such horrible way.
I'll call this an "addendum" to the 500 Days series on the 2001 NASCAR Cup season. Thank you for sharing.
This is very 500 Days-esque. Something that happened in 2001, and after a tragedy noone cared about it anymore. But now 20-something years later it's very interesting to look back.
Great work on this story
I saw the exhibits on the bridge in the naudet footage I never knew that's an incredible look at another story from that day.
Thank you! Those were some of the last clips I pulled for this video. It seemed like the more footage I looked at, the more the exhibits popped up. I'm sure there are plenty more examples I didn't use as well.
Can't wait to see your video on how nascar responded love the nascar content. This video was a welcome educational surprise.
As someone who got a bachelor’s degree in History back in May I enjoyed this video a lot. More non-NASCAR videos in the off-season would be interesting!
Very interesting video! I was the one who reuploaded the Quebec video from Vimeo to RUclips, and I always wondered about what more history there was to this whole thing 🤔
Thank you so much for posting that video! That was one of the sources that inspired this project. I just always wanted to know what that banner meant.
Brock...this is getting out of hand. I got way into NASCAR last year.
This year idk what happened but I got into Vaporwave and 9/11 nostalgia around September.
So yeah. You're the best. 😂
Brock, you've got talent. I love your videos.
Never expected Brock to do something non-racing related!
Amazing video
Wow... Was definitely not expecting this one at all, but at the same time, it's definitely interesting content that nobody has ever really talked about here in the States in the years since 9/11...
And honestly, outside of Pearl Harbor, 9/11/2001 will undoubtedly be a day of infamy for the United States of America, whether it was fake or not (not saying I agree with the conspiracy theories or anything, but anything is possible)
It is unfortunately a date that will be talked about ad nauseum for generations to come, just like Pearl Harbor and D-Day, but with more grim details... It's sad that I lived through this at a young age (I was 9 when this happened), and unfortunately, people at my school all the way in Missouri were affected by this... My teacher at the time was having us watch it on TV before the secretary came in and whispered something in her ear similar to President Bush in Florida, only minutes later, my teacher would end up bursting into tears... Her 19 year old son who had enlisted a year prior had been informed that he was going to be one of the first deployees of what would later be known as the War On Terror that lasted 20 years...
I am unaware of any information on him since that day, unfortunately, but I sincerely thank him for his service
bummer
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