#Quebec history

[fisarmonical]

Provincial Government Sanitary Inspector, J.A. LePage of Montreal, Quebec and Father Edward Meilleur, O.M.I. smoking a pipe in front of a woodstove on a Sunday evening before service at the lumber camp cookhouse. Item number 3197721. Government of Canada, Library and Archives. URL: https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca

[paulrupert-blog]

"Le Refus Global was a manifesto that completely rejected the social, artistic and psychological norms and values of Québécois society at the time. Calling for "an untamed need for liberation," the manifesto cried out for "resplendent anarchy" and criticized the "cassocks that have remained the sole repositories of faith, knowledge, truth, and national wealth."- Wikipedia

With the passing of Madeleine Arbour on Tuesday at the age of 101, Francoise Sullivan is the last living signatory of the Refus. The dancer - pictured here in the 1940's- is also 101 and still active as a painter.

[spockvarietyhour]

FLQ pamphlet, 1968 [Universite du Quebec a Montreal Archives]

[sebastocrat]

In this book by Rémi Tougas about my 7x great-grandaunt, Marie Brazeau, it is detailed that my 8x great-grandfather, Nicolas Brazeau, his wife (& my 8x great-grandmother), Perrette/Perrine Billard, and his son (& my 7x great-granduncle), also named Nicolas Brazeau, were called to testify in the first trial for sacrilege carried out in colonial New France. This trial had to do with circumstances which occurred on March 2, 1686, inside of the Brazeau home in Montreal (then still a frontier settlement), wherein a crucifix was damaged as the defendants (two young soldiers) tried to break through a door inside of the Brazeau home with an ax as they tried to reach another man with whom they had quarrel.

Interestingly, my paternal grandfather, Sylvio A. Brazeau, was born on March 2, 1918 - exactly 232 years later. Given his early passing and the tragedy it unleashed in his branch of latter-day Brazeaus, one would be forgiven for seeing an ill omen if inclined to superstition. I, for one, simply find a certain satisfying symmetry in it and could not pass on mentioning it.

[lionofchaeronea]

Winter Evening, Quebec, Maurice Cullen, ca. 1905

[cogumellow]

from the chateau // vieux quebec, canada // december 2013 // ©

[vintagecamping]

An instructor teaches archery to a camper in the summer camp "Wooden Acres"

Montreal, Quebec

1942

[illustratus]

British soldiers make the arduous ascent of the Heights of Abraham to take Quebec, 1759 by Peter Jackson

[fisarmonical]

Title: Campbell Howard at Murray Bay, Quebec, 1904. Location: La Malbaie (Québec). Date: 1904. Description: Campbell Howard, Gwendolen Marjorie Howard's older brother, at Lac Gravelle at Murray Bay (today La Malbaie), Quebec in 1904. The person standing in the background is not identified. The set of photographs, found in Album 2 of the collection, which record this vacation to Murray Bay also include images of other friends of the Howard family, including William, Revere, and Grace Osler. The sixth photograph on Page 37, Album 2 of the Marjorie Howard Futcher Albums Collection. Publisher: Osler Library of the History of Medicine, McGill University, part of the Marjorie Howard Futcher Albums Collection.

[offsidenewsco]

"For the entire ‘80s and 90’s, only three different players won the Art Ross trophy for scoring lead: Gretzky, who won ten times; Lemieux, who won six times; and Jágr, who won five."

Read Part V of @sergeifyodorov's history of the #NHL here.

[la-belle-histoire]

Mme. G.F. Murray (Montreal, QC). William Notman & Son. 1886.

[eretzyisrael]

Source

[oldshowbiz]

January 1981.

[shutterandsentence]

"Since the day we heard of you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will through all spiritual wisdom and understanding."

--Colossians 1:9

Photo: Quebec City, Canada

[importantwomensbirthdays]

Maude Abbott

Dr. Maude Abbott was born in 1868 in St. Andrews East, Quebec. Dr. Abbott graduated from McGill University, but was not allowed to study medicine there because of her gender. She ultimately received her medical degree from Bishop's College in 1894. Dr. Abbott is remembered for her contributions to the field of cardiology. She wrote about roughly 1,000 heart anomalies over the course of twenty years. Dr. Abbott's 1936 Book, Atlas of Congenital Cardiac Disease, paved the way for modern heart surgery. She also served as curator of McGill University's medical museum, where she devised a classification system for uncatalogued medical specimens.

Dr. Maude Abbott died in 1940 at the age of 72.

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