Montreal in 1851

View of Beaver Hall ; Craig Street in foreground. On the left is the Congregationalist Church of Sion; in the center, St. Andrews Church, completed in 1851; and on the right, the Cathedral - Lower Canada. ...

Les Filles du roi / King’s daughters

Painting by Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale (before 1927) depicting a scene of the arrival of women destined to marry French-Canadian farmers in Quebec City in 1667. It portrays Jean Talon and François de Laval, vicar apostolic of New France welcoming ...

Gilles Hocquart

Portrait of Gilles Hocquart, prominent individual from New France in 1765, ...

Marguerite Bourgeoys

Portrait of Marguerite Bourgeoys a prominent individual in New France who opened the first school in Montréal in 1658, painted by Pierre le Ber. ...