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Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson (January 31, 1919 – October 24, 1972) was the first African American to play in Major League Baseball since the 1880’s. The example of Jackie Robinson’s character and unquestionable talent challenged the traditional basis of segregation, which then marked many other aspects of American life, and contributed significantly to the Civil Rights Movement. Following honourable service in World War II, Robinson played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro League before the Brooklyn Dodgers signed him. He spent the 1946 season with the Montreal Royals of the International League, the Dodgers’ premier farm team.. During that year, Robinson lived in a French Canadian working class neighbourhood with his wife, Rachel. In a 1987 editorial for the New York Times on the 40th annivesary of his milestone, Rachel Robinson reflected on their time on de Gaspé Street after a difficult experience enduring discrimination in spring training in Florida. "We left the South bruised, stimulated, and more contemplative than we arrived. A more resilient pair. Had it not been for the fact that we broke in in Montreal, I doubt seriously we could have made the grade so rapidly," Jackie Robinson himself said in a 1964 CBC interview. "The fans there were just fantastic and my wife and I have nothing but the greatest memories. Our totally opposite experience in Montreal later that year provided us with an excellent springboard into the majors … Montreal and then Brooklyn became special havens where we gradually regained our sense of ourselves and our dignity." Jackie Robinson died in 1972. This statue by Jules Lasalle was dedicated on May 16, 1987 by the Montreal Expos baseball club in the presence of his widow.

Pie-IX is a station on the Green Line of the Montreal Metro rapid transit system operated by the Société de transport de Montréal (STM). It is in the district of Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in the borough of Mercier–Hochelaga-Maisonneuve in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. This station is named for Pie-IX Boulevard (pronounced pea neuf). This street was named in 1912 for Pope Pius IX (1792–1878), elected Pope in 1846. English speakers often humorously refer to either the street or Metro station as "Pie Nine." Pie-IX station was inaugurated on June 6, 1976, as part of the extension of the Green Line to Honoré-Beaugrand, in time for the 1976 Summer Olympics. The station includes a long mural in concrete and aluminum by Jordi Bonet entitled Citius, Altius, Fortius ("stronger, higher, faster" – the Olympic motto). Born in Barcelona in 1932, Jordi Bonet was turned to art early in life by the loss of his right arm. His childhood would be marked by the Spanish Civil War. He studied art in Barcelona. He began working in paint and ceramic before expanding his focus to include metal and concrete reliefs. After studying in Barcelona, he settled in Quebec in 1954, where he continued his studies. Over the next twenty years, he created more than a hundred murals in ceramic, cement, bronze, and aluminum across the world, and associated with the likes of Salvador Dalí. Much of his work was in sacred and liturgical art. He won a place among Quebec's most important artists before his early death of leukemia at age 47.