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Montreal in 1851

April 30, 2024
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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. ...
Paul Rombough
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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...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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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. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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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. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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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...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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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...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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River & Factories in Lewiston, Maine

April 24, 2024
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This photograph is one example to explain and situate the emigration of French (and other) Canadians to work in cotton mills in New England circa 1910. ...
Leanna Di Fulvio
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