THIS ISOLATED little fragment of New France at first appears lost among the apartment buildings of working class Pointe-Saint-Charles. It was a farm when the formidable Marguerite Bourgeoys, Montreal’s first schoolteacher and now a canonized saint, bought it in 1668 as a residence for the religious order she had founded in 1655. (daha fazla…)
EVERY YEAR, two million pilgrims climb the 300 steps to the entrance of this enormous church on their knees. Their devotion would no doubt please Brother André (1845–1937), the truly remarkable man responsible for building this shrine to the husband of the Virgin Mary. (daha fazla…)
THESE TWO open squares create a green oasis in central downtown Montreal. On the north side of Boulevard René-Lévesque, statues including Canada’s first French-Canadian prime minister, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, share the shade of Square Dorchester’s trees with a war memorial. (daha fazla…)
IN THE CENTER OF PLACE D’ARMES sits the Basilica, Montreal’s grandest Catholic church. Originally built in the 17th century, a new building was commissioned in 1829. (daha fazla…)
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