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SOCIETY PAGES TRANSACTIONS JEREMY COCKLOFT's CURSORY OBSERVATIONS by Donald Fyson SOCIETY PAGESN UMBER 2 0 ■ S UMMER 2 0 0 8 ■ $ 2 , 0 0 ■ TRAMPING THROUGH THE MUD OF QUEBEC PAST with Donald Fyson ■ REDISCOVER QUEBEC CITY WITH VOXTOURS ■ Published with the assistance of Canada Post T HE M AGAZINE OF THE L ITERARY AND H ISTORICAL S OCIETY OF Q UEBEC , F OUNDED 1824 ■ EDITOR AND DESIGN Patrick Donovan [email protected] ■ NUMBER 20 ■ SUMMER 2008 PUBLISHER Literary and Historical Society of Quebec 44, chaussée des Écossais CONTENT Québec (Québec) G1R 4H3 PHONE Letter from the President 1 David F. Blair 418-694-9147 FAX Annual General Meeting 1 418-694-0754 Executive Director’s Report 2 France Cliche GENERAL INQUIRIES [email protected] Transactions WEBSITE Jeremy Cockloft's www.morrin.org Cursory Observations 3 Donald Fyson ■ LHSQ COUNCIL Library Pages David F. Blair, President Book Review: Lord Dalhousie, Steve Cameron, Vice-President Patron & Collector 6 Simon Auclair James Haberlin, Treasurer 6 Simon Auclair Diane Kameen, Secretary Northrop Frye Collection Marie C Tremblay. Honorary Librarian Wish List: Hugo Prize Winners 6 Simon Auclair Peter Black Kids Activities 6 Simon Auclair Louisa Blair William GK Boden Voices from the Crossroads Sovita Chander VoxTours: Rediscover Quebec’s James Donovan Anglo Heritage 7 Patrick Donovan Judith Dunn More Voices Activities this Dorothy O’Brien Lorraine O’Donnell Summer 8 Patrick Donovan Jill Robinson Testimonials Hélène Thibault [email protected] The Morrin Centre—A Great ■ Place for Musicians 8 Jack Lavoie EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR France Cliche [email protected] STAFF Simon Auclair LIBRARY HOURS Library Manager [email protected] Sunday 12:00PM-4:00PM Jessica Boutin 400th anniversary coordinator Monday CLOSED [email protected] Valérie Deslauriers Tuesday 12:00PM-9:00PM Administrative Assistant Wednesday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] Patrick Donovan Thursday 12:00PM-4:00PM History-Interpretation-Conservation Friday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] ■ Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM The Literary and Historical Society of Quebec is a non-profit organization whose mandate is to foster English-language culture in the Quebec PLEASE NOTE: LIBRARY WILL BE City region and share its diverse heritage. The CLOSED LHSQ manages the Morrin Centre. ■ ON JUNE 24 AND JULY 1 ISSN 1913-0732 Front cover: Based on the detail of a watercolour by John C. Young, Landing Place, Quebec, c.1825 LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear Members and Friends : council for five years and I would like to thank him, on behalf of council, for his contribution to the What’s in a name? We have been called many things, Society. but there are two names to remember. First, the Literary and Historical Society, which was founded Before closing, I wish to note the departure of a in 1824. Secondly, the Morrin Centre, the Society’s longstanding member of staff, Caroline Lamothe. new English-language cultural centre founded in Caroline has been a pillar of support for the Morrin 2004. Centre since she began seven years ago. Her delightful personality, her drive, and her unflinching The building was built as a jail in 1808 and was used support will be sadly missed. I wish her success in for that purpose until that function was moved to the new challenge she has taken up. the Plains of Abraham in 1868. At that time the building underwent major modifications and it Stay tuned for news about our fundraising raffle this became the Morrin College and the home of our summer. I wish you all a great summer of Society in 1868. The College ceased its educational celebration. activities at the turn of the twentieth century and the large part of the building it occupied remained Sincerely, essentially unused for over 100 years. In 2004, the city transferred title by 99-year emphyteutic lease to our Society, and the Morrin Centre was born. We had a great AGM this spring. I am pleased to David F. Blair report the arrival of my sister Louisa on council. She President replaces Grant McIntosh. Grant served on the ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING The Annual General Meeting took place on Tuesday We received over $1M in Phase II restoration March 18, 2008, attracting a large crowd of members project funds; and friends in the LHSQ Library. Major Our first full year of room rentals brought in 32 achievements of 2007 were presented: rental contracts; 46 special events were held at the Morrin A new Council was elected for 2008. Grant Centre, with additional literary groups and McIntosh left Council after five years of dedicated children’s activities in the library; support to our organization, while Louisa Blair A successful Celtic Festival drew in 4,000 joined council. Officers of Council now include Steve visitors, a fourfold increase from last year; Cameron, who is replacing Peter Black as Vice- 1,178 students and individuals participated in 45- President. The list of the 2008 Council is available on minute guided tours of the site; the previous page The Morrin Centre planned for a broad range of 400th anniversary activities to be held in 2008; Thanks to our fifteen Council members, the 140 Work was done on a Virtual Library of the volunteers that offered their time and expertise, and LHSQ’s nineteenth-century publications, to be the eighteen staff members who contributed to the launched in 2008; Morrin Centre’s growth in 2007. Progress was made on the inventory of library collections. Young Adult and Literary Heritage For more details about activities in 2007, please collections were created; consult our Annual Report available online at The presentation of websites and of our www.morrin.org under “Publications”. ■ quarterly newsletter were updated; PAGE 1 SPRING 2008 Executive Director’s Report SUMMER 2008 UPDATE by France Cliche, executive director Spring has been a busy season at the Morrin Centre. from the Fondation Bagatelle and other generous Several 400th anniversary projects were presented, donors will help round up available amounts to while others will come to fruition in the coming continue the work. months. Stay posted! Menuiserie Pouliot is currently completing work on SOME NEWS the top floor, plastering and painting the walls. These rooms, which were used as workshops during Staff, Interns, Volunteers: Two members of our the prison period, and as offices and apartments in team have left the Society in the past few weeks to later years, will be converted to office space. Wiring pursue careers in other organisations. Caroline for our computer and Internet network is also being Lamothe, Library Manager from 2001 to 2006 and set up. This will allow us to have wireless access in Assistant to the Executive Director since the the library and College Hall soon. beginning of 2007, has accepted a new position at Gestion Universitas. Julie Lamontagne has Project Grants: Several grants for summer student also joined a new team at the Institut de Cardiologie positions came in over the past few weeks, namely de Québec. I want to convey my sincere thanks from Young Canada Works and Service Canada. to both of them for their great contribution to the We also received funding from Canadian Heritage growth of the Morrin Centre. We wish them the to develop a marketing plan for the rental of our best of luck at their new positions. historic venues. Our two full-time volunteers Alex McQuillan LHSQ Library: We are happy to report that all the (from Ontario) and Katrina Mazurik (from books in our circulating collection now have labels Saskatchewan) also left at the end of May to go back on their spine and have been entered into the home after nine months discovering Canada and computer database. We are presently working on an themselves through the Katimavik programme. Their inventory and recataloguing of the special help on special and library projects has been greatly collections upstairs, and have completed about 20% appreciated. I finally want to thank Gisèle of this work. The implementation of the Bouchard, Oral History Project Coordinator, who is computerized catalogue and loan services will currently finishing her mandate by putting the final begin in July, with a complete inventory available touches to the documentary Echoes. We look forward later this year. to the launch of this film next fall. Rentals: The Conservatoire de musique et d’art dramatique New employees have also joined us since our last de Quebec liked the acoustics of our College Hall so publication. David Dupuis began work this spring much during the performance of Rosina that they as a graphic designer on several projects. His rented out the rooms for the final exams of their experience as a comic book artist came in handy students. The upcoming months should see a mix of when giving a bit of spark to our VoxTours project corporate meetings, cocktails, and conventions (see page 7). History student Leah Blythe was the taking place in the College Hall. first summer student employee we hired in May— she will be giving tours in addition to working on a Events: Many successful events took place over the variety of history-related projects. last few months—the usual exciting mix of literary, historical, and musical offerings. Recently, we were Restoration project: We have now raised enough proud to participate in the Let’s Celebrate Together funds to complete some projects included in Phase II weekend planned by VEQ within the Voices from of the restoration work. A new commitment from the Crossroads initiative. Many visitors came to our the Commission de la capitale nationale and gifts heritage site for this occasion. ■ PAGE 2 SOCIETY PAGES TRANSACTIONS JEREMY COCKLOFT'S CURSORY OBSERVATIONS by Donald Fyson On February 22, as part of the nondescripts, with open mouths, demanding, the Written Voices Series, I participated news from England." in a discussion of the early- nineteenth-century book entitled Who was Jeremy Cockloft? Cursory Observations made in Quebec The first question we addressed was the identity of Province of Lower Canada in the Year Jeremy Cockloft.
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