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Wellington Street, Sherbrooke, QC, 1910

April 30, 2024
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"The industrialization of Quebec brought with it another phenomenon: urbanization. In fact, more and more people were now living in cities than in the countryside. Most people moved to the city because that was where the industries were located. And...
Paul Rombough
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Major John Norton (Mohawk Chief Teyoninhokarawen)

April 30, 2024
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"Portrait Of Major John Norton (Teyoninhokarawen). Historical paintings portraying Indigenous people are frequently loaded with harmful, colonial stereotypes. Major John Norton was a British colonial officer of mixed European and Cherokee heritage w...
Paul Rombough
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Mi’kmaq hunter representation

April 30, 2024
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A modern, more ethnographically accurate 1920 update of an earlier 1796 rendition of the hunting, fishing, and gathering tools of Acadians, or what could have been the Mi'kmaq people. ...
Paul Rombough
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Roman Wedding Relief Sculpture

April 29, 2024
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A marble relief of a wedding scene: veiled bride followed by pronuba clasps hands with groom before altar; on the left a huge male carries the sacrificial bull on his shoulder, on the right a maenad dances. ...
Christine Truesdale
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The Three Crosses

April 29, 2024
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During the crusades, Pope John VIII declared that warriors who died fighting pagans would surely have eternal life. Here lies a depiction of Christ being crucified between the two thieves. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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