No-one has yet planted here apple trees, except some which bring very good apples and in quantity, but there are very few of these trees. It is apple-picking season in Quebec, which makes for a fun day out with students . It also reminds me at least of the sheer insanity of the climate here. […]
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St Laurent
Something of a daisy-chain here: the station is named after the street, the street after the river, and the river after a third century deacon of Rome martyred in the reign of Emperor Valerian for the impudence of declaring the riches of the church to be the poor. We’ll begin with the river. Jacques Cartier […]
At Lionel Groulx, the Delirium of the Nation
Reading Esther Delisle’s account against the French Canadian nationalist and anti-semite, Lionel Groulx, the case against him seems overwhelming. But Groulx was neither the first anti-semite nor the first person to create a national myth. In the hardships of the Depression, Groulx was hardly in original looking for scapegoats, and finding them. As Delisle, herself […]
At McGill, Cholera’s Death Carnival
A big welcome to all my new readers and followers since Marian Scott’s piece in the Gazette. I hope you’ll feel free to ask questions, give advice, offer corrections, and above all enjoy the posts. And with posts in mind, here’s this weeks. In recent years fears of global pandemic have hardly been out of the […]
