Secondary Cycle 2 – Y2 (Grade 10) – PRIMARY SOURCES DATABASE

Ottawa City, Upper Canada

May 1, 2024

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A print of Ottawa in 1855 ...

Marguerite Bourgeoys

April 30, 2024

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

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...

Montreal from Street Railway Power House chimney, QC, 1896

April 24, 2024

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A photograph demonstrating industrialization in Québec. ...

Jules-Paul Tardivel (1895-1921)

April 24, 2024

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Jules-Paul Tardivel (post-Confederation ultramontanist nationalist) (2 September 1851 – 24 April 1905) was an American–Québécois writer and a significant promoter of Quebec nationalism. In the 1880s, he founded La Verité, a weekly newspaper e...

La Vérité, juillet 1881

April 24, 2024

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In 1881, Jules-Paul Tardivel founded La Vérité, French Canada's most influential ultramontane newspaper. ...

Le Paradis, Esquisse pour la voûte de l’église de Saint-Sauveur, Québec by Charles Huot

April 24, 2024

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Charles Huot installed an extensive mural painting program in Saint-Saveur Church in Quebec City. ...

The Chancel, St. James Cathedral, Montreal, QC, about 1907

April 24, 2024

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St James Cathedral, known today as Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral. In 1894, subsequent to Bourget's death, the structure was completed and consecrated as St James Cathedral, and in 1955 was rededicated as Mary, Queen of the World Cathedral. ...

Bishop Ignace Bourget, 1862

April 24, 2024

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Ignace Bourget was a fierce ultramontanist, supporting the supreme authority of the Pope in matters both secular and spiritual. He frequently clashed with the Canadian secular authorities...During the 1840s, Bourget led the expansion of the Roman Ca...

Lancashire Cotton Mill

April 24, 2024

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"Work in textile mills and the logging industry—anything besides the backbreaking farm work in Québec—was what drew them. For example, six mills opened in the Lewiston area of the state of Maine alone between 1819 and 1869. When they did settle...