Charles Foran on Maurice Richard

Overview

Few athletes, even great ones, transcend their sport. Maurice Richard is one of them. Though uninterested in politics, he became a political figure who was instrumental in the reinvention of Quebec as a more modern and secular society. Though author Charles Foran has lived all over the world, he was reared on the Montreal Canadiens, and his time in Montreal only deepened his fascination for an eternal icon of the city: Maurice “Rocket” Richard.