Smoking Pipe

Pipe smoking in Iroquoian society. This pipe is from the Eastern Woodlands Aboriginal: St. Lawrence Iroquoian culture. ...

Part of a Palisaded Huron Iroquois Village

Cartier and Sagard, in their narratives, gave us a good idea of the construction of a typical palisaded Huron-Iroquois village. This modern sketch by Charles W. Jefferys in 1942 illustrates what it was like. ...

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...

Lancashire Cotton Mill

"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...