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Iron Bars and Bookshelves: A History of the Morrin Centre
Contributor(s): Blair, Louisa (Author), Donovan, Patrick (Author), Fyson, Donald (Author)
ISBN: 1771860804     ISBN-13: 9781771860802
Publisher: Baraka Books
OUR PRICE:   $31.46  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: July 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | Canada - General
- History | Modern - 19th Century
Dewey: 971
LCCN: 2016416781
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 7.9" W x 9.9" (1.80 lbs) 260 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Canadian
- Locality - Quebec, Quebec
- Geographic Orientation - Quebec
 
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Publisher Description:
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. 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. Did you know that Quebec's first French-language novelist, Philippe Aubert de Gasp , did time in the jail, that Morrin College admitted women on equal terms with men some sixty years before Universit Laval, or that the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec helped establish Canada's National Archives?