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...Labrador is not for sale!" In Montreal, whither Sir Richard went personally to seek a loan last week, he was asked again about selling or leasing Labrador. ''Have you any offers to make?" he smilingly queried correspondents. "Has Quebec, or Canada, or the United States anything to suggest? We'll be willing to listen...
Born. To Telesphore Simard, onetime Mayor of Quebec; his 24th child, a girl; by the second Mme Simard; in Quebec...
...cruelties and hardships to which they submitted were rewarded by canonization last June, the two requisite miracles for that purpose having been duly accepted by the Congregation of Sacred Rites. One was the perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Marie-Maxima of the religious House of St. Hyacinth, in Quebec; the other, the equally perfect and instantaneous cure of Sister Savoie of the diocese of Chatham (Canada). Both Sisters were suffering from tubercular peritonitis. The cures were effected by the invocation of the martyrs, thus investing their relics with added sanctity. Thousands of pilgrims travel to the Auriesville shrine every...
...Quebec in those days was not an old-world city. Wrote Marie: "We see our selves here under the necessity of becoming saints. We must consent to this change, or perish." Her daily business, however, was to turn little Indian girls into good Catholics, and she went at her job with a will. Smallpox, fire, sub-zero weather, the little Indian girls themselves were obstacles but no more. Mere Marie indomitably toiled on; before she died saw the Ursuline school an integral part of Quebec. (Its present buildings, with seven acres, 600 inmates, still stand on the same site.) Agnes...
...married a M. Martin and bore him a son. Not till her husband was dead and Marie was 32 did she enter the Ursuline convent. There her mysticism and executive ability marked her for a super-nunnish career. When the call came for volunteers to go to Quebec, Mere Marie heard it and went...