Montreal is a city that has special meeting space that various peoples among different cultures, religious backgrounds, ethnicities and languages can encounter. Specifically, Montreal is a perfect historical city that illustrates Mary Louis Pratt’s concept of a contact zone. The contact zone is where social spaces (i.e. cities) is in contact with two or more cultures that could clash and interact with each other through ideas, identity, class, culture and politics. The historical context can be oftenly seen in examples of high asymmetric powers that are prevalent. This was evident with the experiences of slavery and colonialism. Although the city of Montreal provides numerous examples of the contact zone, one particular individual, Louis
