Louis honore frechette biography of alberta
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‘Une Relique: La Corriveau’ by Louis-Honore Frechette (English Translation)
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By Louis-Honore Frechette in the 1913 Almanach du peuple de la librairie Beauchemin (English translation)
FROM THE TOP of the Dufferin terrace, in Québec, the eye sees shining in the distance, on the opposite shore, a few miles downstream, a graceful bell tower with lanterns covered in tinplate.
It is that of the small parish church of Saint -Joseph de Lévis, picturesquely sitting on this point of land jutting out into the river, in front of the Montmorency waterfall, facing the southwest end of the Isle of Orléans.
From there, the public road rises gradually towards the west, until it reaches an elevation on which stood, a few years ago, an elegant ionic column surmounted by a golden cross.
It was called the “Temperance Monument”.
There, in the evening, outdoors, novenas were made in time of epidemic, the monthly devotions to Mary; and when Corpus-Christi arrived, it was at t
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Builders of Canada
from Cartier to Laurier,
by Agnes Maule Machar, Louis Honoré Frechette, J. Castell Hopkins, David Creighton, William Buckingham, F. Blake Crofton, J. Lambert Payne, and others; ed. bygd T. G. Marquis.
Description
- Main Author
- Marquis, T. G. (Thomas Guthrie), 1864-1936
- Related Names
- Machar, Agnes Maule, 1837-1927
- Language(s)
- English
- Published
- Toronto, Ont., The John C. Winston company [1903]
- Subjects
- Canada > Canada / Biography
Biographies - Physical Description
- viii, [4], xv-xvi, 570 p. incl. front., illus., plates, ports. 25 cm.
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Les Lutins (The Goblins) by Louis Frechette (English Translation)
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By Louis-Honore Frechette, in the 1905 issue of Almanach du peuple de la librairie Beauchemin(English translation)
Back to Honore Beaugrand’s Classic French-Canadian Folktales.
LUTINS, CHILDREN? You ask if I know what the lutins are? Do you think that someone like me, who has worked for thirty beautiful years in the woods, on the rafts and in the timber camps, would not know, inside and out, everything there is to know about these types of creatures? Yes, Jos Violon knows a little about them!”
It goes without saying that it was precisely Jos Violon himself, our usual protagonist, who had the floor, and who was preparing to treat us to one of his timber camps stories which he had witnessed, in which he had played a decisive role.
“First of all, what do elves do?” asked someone from the audience. “Are they everywhere? Are they demons?”
“That is more than I could tell you,” replied the veteran of the