The City of Montreal has decided to rename another city park after the battle of Vimy Ridge, just two months after controversially changing the name of a park that already bore the distinction to honour late Quebec politician Jacques Parizeau.

A park or public place in the borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce will be renamed after the iconic battle, Montreal Mayor Denis Coderre said Friday.

"I think that in (the neighbourhood) we will have a specific place for Vimy Park or Vimy Place or something very tangible," he told media on Friday. "It will be a great opportunity to show what happened at the time."

In June, Montreal city council approved a controversial plan to rename Parc de Vimy in Outremont after Parizeau, sparking an outpouring of criticism and a small protest.

Parizeau, who was best known for leading the "yes" side in the 1995 referendum on Quebec independence, lived for years on a street adjoining the park.

At the time, critics called changing the name of Parc de Vimy an insult to those that died at the pivotal Battle of Vimy Ridge during the First World War. Fighting together for the first time, the four divisions of the Canadian Corps succeeded in capturing Vimy from the German army between Apr. 9 and 12, 1917. More than 10,000 Canadian soldiers were killed or wounded.

The city named the park after the battle in 1933, but failed to register the name with Quebec's toponomy commission, which oversees the naming of public spaces in the province.

Discussion about the new Vimy park location is already stirring up concern.

Christopher Sweeney, the chair of the Vimy Foundation, says the group is happy with the city's decision to create a new park to commemorate the battle, but warns that it should not do so by stripping another location, such as the borough's Confederation Park, of its already historically significant name.

"We would prefer that it's not Confederation Park, but that it's another park," Sweeney told CTV Montreal. "We don't want to erase history here."

The borough of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce will recommend a park to be renamed to the city. A decision is expected in the fall.

With a report from CTV Montreal