| Dépouillement |
Prison Reform and Prison Society: The Quebec Gaol, 1812-1867 / Donald Fyson -- A Presbyterian Stronghold in Catholic Quebec: Morrin College (Since 1862) / Patrick Donovan -- Moose in Flames: The Story of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec / Louisa Blair. |
| Résumé |
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 centre and library. The colourful 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. 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? -- [Provided by publisher]. |
| ISBN |
9781771860802 (paperback) |
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