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. ...

Jules-Paul Tardivel (1895-1921)

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

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

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

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

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...