authentic and wild nature, splendid late-season light and in the air a call of winter
A little bit of Quebec, from September 16 to 30, 2016
Summary : the whole is organized in 8 sections
When you finally decide to see a country again long after having stayed there, you are torn between the hope of reviving beautiful memories of your youth and the fear of finding them so transformed by time that only scraps remain. Confrontation between memory and observed reality. To objectify is to take the risk of tarnishing.
This is Quebec, and especially Quebec City itself, its surroundings, this close perimeter that the means of a student grant at the time ( almost 50 years ago ) did not allow to extend even as far as Ontario or the Magdalen Islands.
In the great bulk of memory, these are the Sillery plateau, the Plains of Abraham, the green roofs, the streets that seemed narrow and dark in the old town, the vast familiar avenues from Ste-Foy, lined with bourgeois houses whose "windows arched " closed heavy curtains intrigued.
It was the slippery wooden stairs that stormed the Upper Town, the still fresh cement tunnels of Laval University, the dazzling springs where everything rustles and streams with life between the light trunks of the birch trees, the ruthless voracious mosquitoes of the June undergrowth at Cap Rouge, the damp swells of July-August that the St. Lawrence exhales.
But above all the never-ending winter, which crushes the rumbling ice of the river, the efforts to free small snowdrifts the car "on the shoulder" one foot on the accelerator, the other pushing to the ground, the relentless icy blue skies, the "slush" of floundering snow, the blizzard storms of sauve-qui-peut where we caulk with pizza and fried chicken "à la KFC" in our cheap and comfortable little apartments in high-rise buildings. drink.
But also the brief and intense celebration of wonder, sun and blood from the maples at the end of September, the hockey matches, hectic passion punctuated by electric organ loads or Béliveau shone on the black and white screen but blurry, a huge television cabinet.
It was also the warm, robust and talkative welcome of " damn french »By the mocking or gently ironic Quebecers, the stupid arrogance hexagonal for some of us, the reassuring withdrawal between oneself, the giggles from which are born firm friendships ; young people of " old country »In no hurry to face real life and approach these healthy descendants of former 17th century French adventurers, who remember the bitter abandonment of France.
To taste and infuse, we wanted this modest reunion, to take the time, to revive the memory of course but also to discover what it had not been possible to see at the time.
This is why our circuit was voluntarily limited to the only triangle Quebec - Tadoussac - Lac St-Jean and Chicoutimi - then return to Quebec via Tewkesburry and Stoneham.
Brief bibliography
Unless otherwise specified, when a context comment is added, it comes from ... Wikipedia .
Without being exhaustive at all, a list of other sources is given below. indicating the subject, and in bulk.
- on Quebec loggers : "https://pyrodactile.wordpress.com/2010/02/03/dossier-virilite-les-draveurs/"
- letters from Charlevoix in " General History of New France ", volume 3, by "gallica.bnf.fr"
- on cruises on the St. Lawrence : "https://teoros.revues.org/241" from 1995
- on the frozen St-Laurent in Quebec : "https://www.ville.quebec.qc.ca/culture_patrimoine/archives/pages_histoire/pont_de_glace.aspx#expanded"
- on the fur trade in New France : "http://www.museedelhistoire.ca/musee-virtuel-de-la-nouvelle-france/activites-economique/traite-des-fourrures/"
- on the Amerindians of Quebec : "http://www.authentikcanada.com/les-amerindiens" and again " http://www.aadnc-aandc.gc.ca"
- on the avatars of the basilica of Ste-Anne de Beaupré : "https://tolkien2008.wordpress.com/2014/05/11/incendie-de-la-basilique-notre-dame-de-beaupre-le-29 -March-1922 / "
- on the Cyclorama of Jerusalem : " https://www.erudit.org/culture/continuite1050475/continuite1052750/17630ac.pdf"
- on the cultivation of vines in Quebec : " https://www.agrireseau.net/petitsfruits/documents/culture%20de%20la%20vigne-agrir%C3%A9seau1.pdf" and " http: // www. canalvie.com/famille/vie-de-famille/activites-en-famille/les-9-plus-beaux-vignobles-du-quebec-1.1124480 "
- on a little history of the clergy in Quebec : "http://www.quebecoislibre.org/12/121015-7.html" and "http://affaires.lapresse.ca/economie/quebec/201303/ 04 / 01-4627501-leglise-du-quebec-compte-sur-son-patrimoine-immobilier.php "
- on the Great Lakes and Canada : "http://www.canadiangeographic.com/atlas/themes.aspx?id=watersheds&sub=watersheds_flow_thegreatlakes&lang=Fr"
- on the Canadian Shield : "http://www.rcinet.ca/fr/2013/10/13/bouclier-canadien/" and "http://ecozones.ca/francais/zone/BorealShield/land.html"
- on Tadoussac and its history : " http://www.historicplaces.ca/fr/rep-reg/place-lieu.aspx?id=12432&pid=0" but also " Voyage au pays de Tadoussac" by J Edmond Roy, 1889 ", and again" History and general description of New France, with the Historical Journal made by order of the King in North America "by Father de Charlevoix, Jesuit, of 1733" and again Bergeron's "Treaty of Navigations" of 1629 or else "http://www.tadoussac.com/fr/tadoussac/h historique"
- on the history of Canada : "http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio.php?id_nbr=1011"
- on Champlain "Samuel de Champlain, Second Voyage, from Honfleur to Montreal", from The Younger in 1931.
- on the gates of Quebec : "" https://tolkien2008.wordpress.com/2012/06/06/les-portes-de-quebec-en-images-xixe-siecle/
- on the Dufferin terrace and the Frontenac castle : "http://www.frontenac-ameriques.org/louis-de-buade-comte-de-frontenac/article/le-chateau-frontenac-de-quebec"
- on Lord Dufferin : "http://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/cd/1987-n1-cd1172910/6737ac/"
- on the Habitation de Québec , by Françoise Niellon: "http://www.historymuseum.ca/cmc/vmnf/champlain/bat2b_fr.shtml"
- on Place-Royale ; "http://www.ameriquefrancaise.org/fr/article-617/Place-Royale_%C3%A0_Qu%C3%A9bec,_l%E2%80%99image_d%E2%80%99une_ville.html#.WOJNZjuLSUk"
- on the Augustines : "http://www.augustines.org/origines.php"
- on the Ursulines , and the Augustines, the work "Les Ursulines de Québec 1639-1953" by Dom Guy-Marie Oury, 1999
- on the Holy Trinity Cathedral in Quebec : "The Anglican Presence in Quebec" by Luc Noppen and Lucie K. Morrisset
- for a history of the south shore, very complete and fascinating named " history of St-Michel and St-Vallier from the 17th to the 20th century " , see: "http://www.shbellechasse.com/Paul/Histoire%20de%20Saint-Michel%20et%20de%20Saint-Vallierb. htm "
- on St-Michel de Bellechasse : "http://www.mrcbellechasse.qc.ca/munmich.html"
- about Morel de la Durantaye : "http://www.biographi.ca/fr/bio.php?id_nbr=1000" from the Dictionary of Canadian Biography and "http://genealogiequebec.info/testphp/info.php ? no = 51082 ".
- about Beaumont : "http://www.beaumont.qc.com/histoire.html"
- on the Canadian rank : "http://www.encyclopediecanadienne.ca/fr/article/rang-canadien/"