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Iron Bars And Bookshelves
The Morrin Centre is at the heart of Quebec City’s history. It once housed Quebec’s common jail, the Presbyterian-run Morrin College, and the scholarly activities of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec. Today, it is home to the city’s main English-language cultural center and library.
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The colorful stories of each of these institutions reveal unknown aspects of the tumultuous history of Quebec’s capital city and bring some of its forgotten characters back to life. This book takes you from the dark prison cells on the building’s ground floor to the stately library and college classrooms above it.
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Did you know that Quebec’s first French-language novelist, Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, did time in the jail, that Morrin College admitted women on equal terms with men some sixty years before Université Laval, or that the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec helped establish Canada’s National Archives?
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“This book is creative nonfiction/cultural history at its best. The illustrations are excellent and well reproduced. The appearance of the work is attractive. The notes and references are copious. Here is a world in a sense – a Quebec City that has enriched its present time by the preservation and adaptation of its past inheritance.” —Sandra Stock, Quebec Heritage News
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Dimensions:
260 Pages
304.8mm * 12in * 254mm * 10in * 15.24mm0.6in
802.86gr
1.77lb
28.32oz
Published:
July 01, 2016
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ISBN:
9781771860802
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eng
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