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PUBLISHER Literary & Historical Society of Quebec CONTENTS 44 chaussée des Écossais Quebec, Quebec G1R 4H3 PHONE 418-694-9147 GENERAL INQUIRIES Letter from the President 2 Barry Holleman [email protected] WEBSITE From the Executive Director 2 Barry McCullough www.morrin.org

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Elites and Orphans 4 Kathleen Hulley LHSQ COUNCIL [email protected] Sticks, Stones, and Knucklebones 5 Patrick Donovan Barry Holleman, President Ladd Johnson, Vice-President Gina Farnell, Treasurer Elite Families in 9 Alex Tremblay Lamarche Diana Cline, Secretary Donald Fyson, Honorary Librarian Library Pages Jacob Stone, Member at Large Éric Thibault, Member at Large On the Shelf: Children’s Literature 13 Britta Gundersen-Bryden Jean-David Banville Peter Black New Acquisitions 16 Jack Bryden Katherine Burgess New in Overdrive 17 Arthur Plumpton Grant Regalbuto 150th Birthday 18 Cheryl Rimmer

Events & Activities Sovita Chander, Ex-Officio David F. Blair, Ex-Officio Tomas Feininger, Ex-Officio The 2018 Literary Feast 20 Elizabeth Perreault ■ Jacques Poitras: Pipe Dreams 22 Mark Lindenberg DIRECTOR Salon des Mariés 23 Vivianne Carrier Barry McCullough Executive Director Wayan and the Turtle King 24 Azanie Roy [email protected] FULL-TIME STAFF Youth Activities 24 Azanie Roy Claude Blaney Building Caretaker Miscellanea Gail Cameron Accounting & Financial Clerk [email protected] Education Coordinator: Azanie Roy 26 Vivianne Carrier Events Coordinator Healthful Holidays 27 Mary McCown [email protected] Rosemarie Fischer 12 Songs of Christmas 28 Barry McCullough Management Assistant [email protected] Manon Fortin Rentals Coordinator [email protected] LIBRARY HOURS Kathleen Hulley Library Manager [email protected] Sunday 12:00PM-4:00PM Stefanie Johnston Guided Tours Coordinator [email protected] Monday CLOSED Elizabeth Perreault Development & Communications Director Tuesday 12:00PM-8:00PM [email protected] Azanie Roy Education Coordinator Wednesday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected]

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Front cover: Ken Dryden delivers a standing-ovation-worthy keynote speech. SOCIETY PAGES LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Dear Members, Partners, and be used to further grow the Marietta Freeland Fund for Friends, the Arts. This fund is used to support the Centre’s Arts Pillar programming, ensuring that Marietta’s legacy and In recent weeks, I have met generosity have a lasting impact in our community. several people who have brought their children to the At the Literary Feast on November 15th, Guy Cormier, Morrin Centre for events and President and Chief Executive Officer of Desjardins activities in our Children’s Group, announced the company’s contribution of Reading Program. This $150,000 over the next three years. The funds will be program, vitally important to used to refresh our guided tours, which includes the the future of the Centre and to development of an augmented reality tour based on the our community, has created an interest in arts, culture, building’s history with capital punishment. We are very heritage, and languages among our region’s youth. The excited to get started on this new initiative, which will program has been greatly expanded in 2018, especially be launched in May 2019. Desjardins Group has been a since hiring Azanie Roy as Education Coordinator in fantastic partner over the years, and with this ongoing September. Her presence will help us accelerate these support, they are helping us to ensure that the Morrin efforts and bring our programs to both English and Centre continues to evolve through its innovative and French schools. I am excited to see what 2019 has in inspirational projects. store for the program as the LHSQ continues to take more activities out to the community. I wish you all a wonderful holiday season,

Every December, the Centre launches its year-end Barry Holleman fundraising campaign. Last year, you probably remember President that we used your generous contributions to restore the tables in the library. This year, the contributions will

FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Dear Friends, Members, and 10th annual Literary Feast, held on November 15th, put a Partners, bow on a great year. Speaker Ken Dryden inspired us all with his thoughts on concussions in sports and on As we reach the end of 2018, it the current state of the NHL. Guy Cormier reaffirmed is a good time to reflect upon Desjardins’ commitment to the Morrin Centre with a the year’s engaging and very generous contribution over the next three years. memorable programming at the As usual, Susan Campbell masterfully hosted the Morrin Centre. evening.

In April, we hosted our most We have received tons of positive feedback about our successful ImagiNation Writers’ recent workshop series, and we have two more series Festival to date, both in terms of participation and ticket in the winter. The “In the Press” journalism workshops sales. Our team is hard at work putting together kicked off at the end of November and will continue another formidable lineup of writers and artists from through March 2019. “Laugh Lab,” a series of across Canada and beyond. Stay connected to the workshops about creating comedy, will run from Morrin Centre’s social media platforms in the New January to March 2019. I hope to see you at some of Year for author announcements. these events.

From our Back to Beer cocktail with Helen Antoniou to My best wishes for a happy and healthy holiday season, this summer’s Arts Alive Festival, and all of the other great initiatives in between, it has been another Barry McCullough incredible year for the Centre. It is only fitting that our Executive Director

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ELITES & ORPHANS A NEW PERMANENT EXHIBIT AT THE MORRIN CENTRE By Kathleen Hulley

Hilda Stephens with her toys (BAnQ-Q, P450, 2009-03-006/53), Hilda Stephens later in life (from My Quebec Collection), and a 12-piece toy dinner set from the collection (Stephens Collection, 2004-196)

This Winter 2018 issue of Society Pages features three community. As she wrote in My Quebec Collection, a text articles related to Elites & Orphans, a new permanent that accompanies her donation: “They all belonged to exhibit that opened on November 27th, 2018. Co- people I knew, and most of these people knew each curated by historian Patrick Donovan and Library other […]. They are all together now telling a story of Manager Kathleen Hulley, this exhibit explores the people who lived in Quebec in the 19th and 20th diverging experiences of play for elite and poor children centuries.” The collection thus represents the within Quebec City’s English-speaking population at the interconnected networks of the English-speaking turn of the 20th century. Moreover, the display offers a families of old Quebec City. new perspective onto Quebec City’s past through the Elites & Orphans features charming pieces that are world of play. evocative of childhood play, from miniature furniture The majority of the items displayed in Elites & Orphans and horse-drawn carriages, to dolls and toy tea sets. If were donated to the “Lit. and His.” by Mary Hilda you haven’t already seen the exhibit, take some time Freeland Stephens (1911–1999). Hilda, as she was over the holidays to explore known, belonged to the Protestant English-speaking these fascinating mementos of community living near the present-day Morrin Centre. childhood! Over the years, she collected these treasures from this Made possible with the support of:

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STICKS, STONES, AND KNUCKLEBONES: GAMES AND PLAY AMONG QUEBEC’S ENGLISH-SPEAKING POPULAR CLASSES AROUND 1900 By Patrick Donovan

Haves & Have-nots Protestant. Moreover, professional white collar The new exhibit in the Morrin Centre library’s workers never represented more than a fifth of the children’s section examines toys and play in the late 19th total English-speaking population, and many of these and early 20th centuries. Most of the objects were were what we’d now consider middle-class middle- collected by Hilda Stephens (1911–1999), who played as managers. Affluent Protestants were therefore a tiny a child in and around what is now the Morrin Centre. minority within the English-speaking community. The Her grandfather Andrew poor vastly outnumbered Tannahill Love lived in the rich across all ethno- Kirk Hall and was both linguistic groups. Over a minister of Saint Andrew’s third of the Irish Catholic Church and one of the population consisted of last principals of Morrin poorly-paid unskilled College. Hilda studied art, labourers, a larger and later taught it at proportion than among Quebec High School. She Francophones. was also a passionate collector, and bought up In short, most Quebec o l d c h i l d h o o d City parents, whether memorabilia from many of English- or French- her friends in the Quebec speaking, could not have City region. These objects afforded miniature were mostly toys for girls: porcelain toilet sets for porcelain-head dolls in their children, or ice tweed jackets, miniature cream served with golden chamber pots used to play spoons. house, British-made Punch and Judy tea sets, and Boys playing with hoops, Toronto, 1922 Did these poorer kids golden embossed spoons Toronto Public Library, TRL, Acc. X65-189 have time to play? Did from McWilliam’s ice they spend all day toiling cream parlor on rue Saint-Jean (known as “John Street” at factories and as household drudges? What kind of to many English-speakers). It’s an impressive collection toys did they own, if any? What games did they play? that evokes the lives and stories of uptown Protestant elites that lived over a hundred years ago, and the Morrin Centre is lucky to have it. Sticks & Stones Since most families did not have as much disposable However, when looking at the English-speaking income to spend on toys as today, many game objects community as a whole, this collection leaves out a large were made with found or inexpensive materials. If you chunk of the population. Contrary to popular belief, have kids, you’ll know that they have incredible there has always been more to Quebec’s English- imaginations. Just about anything has the potential to be speaking community than affluent Protestants. In fact, by a toy. My own son has frequently taken a bite out of a 1900, roughly two thirds of the city’s English-speakers piece of bread and pretended it was a toy gun. Sticks were Irish Catholics, and only one third were can make wonderful swords. Smooth stones can

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 STICKS, STONES, KNUCKLEBONES (continued from previous page) frog, and red rover. They also included throwing games, whether with snowballs or regular balls. Ball become precious collectables. Old bones can be used games were not as formal and rule-bound as organized to play jacks. A bit of rope is all you need to skip. Tops sports today. can be made from a spool and dowel. Chalk is all it takes to play hopscotch. Organized sports were still in their infancy, mainly hockey and lacrosse. The first hockey game was played in Hoop & Stick Quebec City in 1880, and the Some games have not stood modern hockey net was only the test of time. Hoop rolling invented in 1899. Hockey was a game common to all tended to be more popular classes. All you needed was a among upper class adults than hoop from an old barrel, a among children. Working class discarded wheel rim, or a kids still played with balls and handmade circle made out of hurley sticks on skating rinks bent wood. These were and back alleys, but they played trundled along with sticks in a “disorderly” form of the races through streets and game without any of the rigid parks. Authorities occasionally rules applied by the upper sought to ban them as a public classes. nuisance, as hoops frequently ran into pedestrians or rolled out into traffic. The increasing Money & Luxuries presence of cars on city When it came to manufactured streets, combined with the rise toys, working class families had of helicopter parenting, put an less choice. Unskilled workers end to this practice. could earn ten cents an hour at manufacturing jobs, or five to ten dollars a week. Most of Gangs & Pranks that money was accounted for. This type of unstructured play In fact, one in seven families in on the streets was far more 1900, even after pooling their common then than it is now. wages, did not have enough to There were many adequately eat and clothe unsupervised kids wandering themselves. If you wanted to about. At a young age, children buy a tricycle with rubber tires played in informal groups with for your child at Eaton’s or others in the neighbourhood. Kirouac’s toy store, it would Later, from around age 10 to cost more than a week’s adolescence, young boys wages. T. Eaton Co. Catalogue no.66, 1904–1905, p. 240 grouped together in gangs, played pranks and rough Dolls & Doll Heads games, shot birds with catapults, engaged in petty theft, Given this, the seemingly affordable Eaton’s beauty and frequently got into turf wars with rival gangs. Girls dollar doll (pictured here), was a luxury for most of the same age socialized in smaller packs of two or working class parents. They’d have to put aside a few threes, observing and making fun of the boys, but pennies every week to afford it, and would then need parents typically tied them more closely to home. to buy or stitch clothes for it.

They also played games that are still common today. Doll heads were a more affordable alternative. By These include hopscotch, tag, hide-and-go-seek, leap 1900, they were typically made out of porcelain, either

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WINTER 2018 TRANSACTIONS bisque (unglazed) or china (glazed). The cheapest ones Although marble games existed before written history, sold for 5 cents and could be sewn onto a homemade mass production started in the 1880s in Akron, Ohio. body made of cloth stuffed with straw. One million clay marbles per day came out of Akron, and mass production brought the price down from one However, rag dolls with cloth heads could be made penny for a marble to 30 marbles for a penny. Cheaply even more cheaply with scraps found around the made mass-produced glass marbles came later. house. This is the type of doll that children from working class There was no single households typically game called “marbles”: owned. you could try to roll them into holes; you could draw a circle in Penny Toys the sand and knock Fortunately, some out your opponent’s manufactured toys marbles, keeping the were affordable to a ones that were broad range of people. knocked out; or you By 1900, the Western could simply collect world was well into them as beautiful the industrial age of objects. mass production and there were cheap toys Playing Cards aplenty. Canada did Playing cards have also not produce many been around for a toys, but toy long time, and would manufacturers in have been affordable England, Germany, to a working class France and the United family. Cards with States exported here. diamonds, spades, Between 1880 and clovers, and hearts 1914, about 60% of have been around the imports did not since the 1400s, but come from the USA the joker only made a or England, as one first appearance in the would expect, but 1860s. from Germany. There were also 5¢ Germany was a global Strange People card deck, 1896 and 10¢ children’s World of Playing Cards, http://www.wopc.co.uk manufacturing centre card games for sale at for “penny toys.” Eaton’s in the late 19th These were made of die-cut tin coloured through century. These included Old Maid, Snap, and Castaway. offset printing and assembled by unskilled labourers on The Fireside company of Cincinnati, Ohio produced the factory line, hence the low price. They included 25¢ glossy educational sets with flags, Biblical scenes, boats, trains, horses, animals, clowns, and even Father and one set called “Strange People,” that depicted Christmas with his traditional blue German hooded “different dress, manners, and customs of the nations suit. of the world” (pictured).

Marbles Work & Play Whereas Germany specialized in penny toys, marbles Although parents of working class children could afford were usually imported from the . some games and toys, what about children in

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 STICKS, STONES, KNUCKLEBONES (continued from previous page) LeMesurier was asked by a Royal Commission on Labor in 1885 how old the 30-or-so boys and girls in orphanages? In Quebec City, Saint Brigid’s Home had his factory were, he replied: “They all say they are 14 58 Irish Catholic orphans at the end of 1900, and the when they come in” (italics mine). The commission three Protestant homes had roughly the same number found that many were much younger, despite the laws (24 in the Ladies’ Protestant Home, 20 in the Female in place. Laws prohibiting child labour were enacted in Orphan Asylum, and 15-20 in the Male Orphan Quebec in the 1880s and 1890s, but the minimum Asylum). Many of these children were not orphans in working age for boys was still 12 by the year 1900. As the strict sense, but may have had one or two parents seen above, employers didn’t always check birth who were unable or unwilling to look after them, certificates. which meant that some still received gifts from their families. The wealthy patrons of these institutions, In conclusion, social class did not dull children’s solemnly referred to as “temporal benefactors” of the instincts to play, and most children had access to toys, orphans, also donated toys from time to time, even orphans. In many cases, manufactured toys particularly around Christmas. In other words, these weren’t even necessary. The unbounded imaginations children had access to toys. of children made it possible to transform found objects like sticks and stones into priceless treasures. Rich and Despite this, orphanages were not known for providing poor kids had many games in common: tag, marbles, abundant play time. Young girls were taught skills that cards, dolls, etc. The main difference is that poorer would make them good servants and were typically children had a smaller range of manufactured toys to sent to rich homes at a young age. Boys were also play with, and probably had less time to let their apprenticed to tradesmen, as farmhands, or as imaginations run wild because of pressure to manservants. contribute to the household economy. ■

Poorer children, whether in orphanages or in poor Patrick Donovan recently completed a Ph.D. in History households, were expected to pull their own weight at on the evolution of ethno-religious boundaries within a young age, which left less time for play. Whereas kids charitable networks for Quebec City’s English-speakers. He in wealthier families often had servants to do the currently works as the Associate Coordinator of the Quebec housework, poorer children had many chores. English-Speaking Communities Research Network at Furthermore, in the 1880s, children in Quebec City Concordia University. He has a Master’s degree in Heritage could work 10-hour days in factories. Some Preservation and played an instrumental role in the whaleboned corsets at the Dominion Corset factory. restoration and establishment of the Morrin Centre. He Some labeled cigarette packages at LeMesurier’s continues to collaborate on projects for the Morrin Centre, tobacco factory at 20 cents a day. When William including the Elites and Orphans exhibit.

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WINTER 2018 TRANSACTIONS BORN AND RAISED IN AN ELITE FAMILY IN QUEBEC CITY DURING THE 19TH CENTURY By Alex Tremblay Lamarche

During the 19th century, the perception of childhood and did not pass away in the first hours of its life, he changed considerably. With the rise of various forms of would often be given a name that recalled a notable nationalism and the advent of the ideal of the bourgeois ancestor, a closely related family member, or a famous household, the child not only increasingly embodied person whose lineage the family wanted to be identified what historian Michelle Perrot called “the future of the with. This is notably the case of Philippe Aubert de nation and of the race,” but also became the very Gaspé, Jr., author of the book L’influence d’un livre center of the (1837), who family. In the bore the same wealthiest first name as segments of his father and society, the his great-great- child took on grandfather. Or an even more again, the third i m p o r t a n t daughter of the dimension: the politician heir, the one George-Étienne called upon to Cartier, Reine- continue the Victoria (1853– family line and 1854), whose to assure its first name l o n g - t e r m could not have posterity. Thus, more clearly elites paid expressed the s p e c i a l p o l i t i c a l attention to the allegiances of stakes involved her father! in raising c h i l d r e n . Even if the Indeed, given The Love Family wealthiest 1895, St. Andrew’s Manse Garden, Quebec City th the scientific BAnQ-Q, P450, 2009-03-006/53 families in 19 - progress of the c e n t u r y era, there was a strong desire among the most Quebec relied almost systematically upon servants to educated families to be up to date with the latest assist with the housekeeping and the upbringing of knowledge about childhood in order to allow their children, these families rarely employed wet nurses. offspring to benefit. Although wet nurses were very common in Europe (and particularly in France), they were quite rare here. Birth Mothers preferred to take care of their own children, In bourgeois families, the birth of a child—and in even if that meant dragging them along more or less particular, of a first son—represented a moment of everywhere, or limiting the frequency of visits with great happiness, even if each newborn came with the family and friends. In fact, an entire body of literature risk of experiencing “the pain of losing them” prior to addressed to women developed during this era in their reaching the age of adulthood. Infant mortality order to allow them to be aware of the most recent was indeed quite common and did not spare the scientific developments and to pass the benefits on to wealthiest of households. If a child was not stillborn their children. In a book published in 1876, Doctor

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 ELITE CHILDREN (continued from previous page) them dirty would be an obstacle to their play.”

Hubert LaRue recommended to no longer “submerge As the century progressed, toys became increasingly young children in a cold bath immediately after their common in bourgeois households. Many toys were birth” or to no longer resort to the “barbarous purchased in Germany, where numerous factories practice” of wrapping them up in swaddling clothes produced dolls and miniature tea services for girls, or such as to inhibit all small metal vehicles movement, but rather (trains, omnibuses, to wash them in warm horse-drawn cars, etc.), water and to leave their wooden horses, and limbs free of all marbles for boys. constraints. He also During this era (and this suggested that mothers is still true today, for make use of a “modern that matter), games invention”: the safety aimed to prepare pin. Since it ensured children for the roles that babies were not at that they would occupy risk of being pricked, later in life. Little girls this American invention were thus initiated into from the middle of the maternity, the arts, and 19th century quickly music, whereas their became very popular in brothers were initiated Quebec. into mathematics, the public sphere, and a Early Childhood variety of professional During early childhood, activities toward which children developed they would later be autonomy quite slowly. directed. The cultivation In particular, it was of good manners and recommended that the values of their social children younger than class also began among 18 months to two years children at this age, and old be “kept confined to it was only after the house” from mastering these that October until April (or children could aspire to even until the beginning leave childhood behind of May) to ensure that little by little. Young they did not catch a children thus did not chill. Boys and girls at Toy Dessert Set eat at the same table as this age wore dresses. Asprey, c. 1900, USA, Glass and silver, Belonged to the Breakey their parents, and this and Scott families of Breakeyville, QC Up until World War I, Stephens Collection 2004-288 continued until they had it was quite common to mastered the codes of see young boys sporting long curls. This, however, was decorum and etiquette associated with mealtimes. for a relatively brief period in their lives; around the age of four, boys began to wear masculine clothing that During this era, children were subject to strict would distinguish them from their sisters for the discipline, and it was common for parents or tutors to remainder of their lives. Beginning at this age, children inflict physical punishment on their offspring or their were able to enjoy more freedom, and it was pupils. In the words of Louis Fréchette, “raising a child recommended that they not be dressed in expensive [in the middle of the 19th century] involved excessive clothing in order to avoid that “the worry of getting beatings; setting them straight required breaking their

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WINTER 2018 TRANSACTIONS bones.” According to Fréchette, the value of a teacher classical colleges. At Reverend John Jackson’s boarding is thus “gauged by the size of their whip and the school, which Philippe Aubert de Gaspé attended strength of the muscles required to make use of the between 1804 and 1806, students would study Greek instrument of torture.” It was often said in similar and Latin authors as well as the classics of English- circumstances that “he is a good teacher; he is strict.” language literature (Pope, Shakespeare, Scott, etc.). Nevertheless, during the second half of the century, many people questioned the use of such force. Even if Classical colleges did more than just transmit this elite everyone agreed that strict discipline was necessary to culture common to Anglophone Protestants and ensure that children obeyed Francophone Catholics; they the laws and did not become also became genuine places vile “hellions who would end for socialization, allowing up dying on the scaffold,” it young people from the two seems that Protestants communities to get to know believed that beating children each other and to develop should only be resorted to friendships. In fact, several “after having exhausted all of Catholic schools already the other means of welcomed Protestant reprimand.” Anglophone students. During the period in which Aubert School-Aged Children de Gaspé attended the When children were old Séminaire de Québec (1798– enough to attend school, 1806), one finds “five young their parents were intent on Englishmen” who had “as sending them to the best many friends as there were institutions in the city. students,” as he later wrote. Attending these institutions Thirty years later, when he was in itself a mark of attended the school (1838– prestige and social status. 1845), James McPherson Le Nevertheless, the importance Moine counted “several of these institutions did not young Protestants” among end there. They offered the boarders. Furthermore, young elite children a the institution hired some curriculum that allowed them British officers to teach music to learn Latin and to perfect and to establish a brass band. their linguistic and rhetorical The Ursuline Nuns of abilities, while also developing Quebec, for their part, a taste for classical literature, welcomed several Protestant Greco-Roman history, music, Anglophone students and theatre. As a result, throughout the 19th century Doll when they had finished their th th and maintained strong studies, they were able to Late 19 -early 20 century, unknown origin, relations with the British Ceramic, leather, wool, cotton, lace, and metal integrate themselves into the Stephens Collection 2004-326 a u t h o r i t i e s , w h o s e distinguished circles of representatives they regularly society, where knowledge of these disciplines was welcomed within their walls. As a comparison, in the necessary to assert one’s social status. Members of the first half of the 19th century, “between a quarter and a lower classes, when they had access to a school, third of students at the Sulpician College (in ) followed a much shorter curriculum that was often possessed a British-sounding name” (cited in Le collège more pragmatic than theoretical. Thus, they did not classique pour garcons). internalize these components of social distinction, whereas private English-language schools for the elites offered an education similar to the one offered in

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 ELITE CHILDREN (continued from previous page) Avenue. Whatever the path to adulthood may be, it can sometimes take some time! ■ Adolescence Upon reaching adolescence, the sons and daughters of Selected Sources for Further Reading the elite were invited to solidify the social networks in Louise Bienvenue, Ollivier Hubert, and Christine Hudon, Le which they were already inscribed and to insert collège classique pour garçons: Études historiques sur une themselves into new ones. Parents deployed all of their institution québécoise disparue (Montreal: Fides, 2014). abilities and resources to ensure that their children frequented the most fashionable places in order to Lucie Desrochers, Au pays de l’enfance, 1861–1962 (Sainte- Foy: Publications de Québec, 2006). become known by a wide circle and to consolidate Philippe Aubert de Gaspé, their connections with the M é m o i r e s (Montreal: most important families. Bibliothèque québécoise, 2007). For example, some deputies would bring their Louis Fréchette, Mémoires children along to the i n t i m e s (Montreal: La Legislative Assembly so Bibliothèque électronique that they could follow the québécoise, 2004). work from the gallery and Hubert LaRue, De la manière get to know influential d’élever les jeunes enfants au politicians. A notable case Canada ou entretiens de madame is that of Félix-Gabriel Genest à ses filles (Québec: C. Marchand, Deputy for Saint Darveau, imprimeur-éditeur, -Jean, whose son and 1876). daughters frequented the Assembly during the 1870s. Michelle Perrot, La vie de famille e Others would spend a au XIX siècle (Paris: Points, fortune so that their 2015). children could be seen at Robert-Lionel Séguin, Les jouets the most important balls. anciens du Québec (Ottawa: Leméac, 1976). Little by little, adolescents enjoyed more and more Toy Toilet Set autonomy, even if their Late 19th-early 20th century, unknown origin, Porcelain, Recipient of the Lieutenant parents continued to keep Belonged to Wilma Hoare Governor of Quebec’s Youth a close eye on them and Stephens Collection 2004-172, 2004-173 Medal, Alex Tremblay even if a close relative Lamarche has a Master’s in would almost always serve as a chaperone when the History from Université Laval and is currently pursuing a adolescent began calling on members of the opposite doctoral degree at Université Laval and the Université libre sex. Adolescents did not leave the family nest until they de Bruxelles. His research focuses on the relationship got married, at which point they would establish a between the elite Anglophone and Francophone populations household that would reproduce in large part the one of Quebec in the 19th century, and, more broadly, on the in which they were raised. Others even remained in history of the elite. As a member of the Cap-aux-Diamants the parental home for some time after their marriage. editorial committee, and at the helm of 3 600 secondes This was notably the case for the Notary Charles d’histoire, a radio show on CHYZ 94,3 that popularizes Alexandre Lindsay and his wife, Amélie Juchereau history, Tremblay is actively involved in the dissemination of Duchesnay. Even though the couple was married on history to the broader public. September 23rd, 1861, they lived in his father’s house until 1863, at which point they moved to Saint-Denis

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WINTER 2018 LIBRARY PAGES ON THE SHELF CHILDREN’S LITERATURE This issue is dedicated to children, both rich and poor, and their right to read By Britta Gundersen-Bryden

Tea sets and toy soldiers. Pull toys and plush bears. Charles Dickens’ name is synonymous with Christmas. Balls and bats. Rolling hoops. Tin whistles. The Morrin Not only did he pen his timeless 1843 tale of Scrooge Centre’s current exhibit Elites and Orphans helps answer (A Christmas Carol**), he also published four the question: “What toys were Quebec City’s children additional “Christmas Books” between 1844 and 1848. playing with during the Victorian and Edwardian eras?” A child in a posh Quebec City home may have received Equally interesting are the questions: “What were they a first edition shipped from London as a gift from Uncle reading?” or “What books were being read to them?” James or Aunt Maude. A child living in very modest circumstances may have read a serialized version of one Many Quebec City children were exposed to books at of Dickens’ works, such as The Old Curiosity Shop** school in the late Victorian or early Edwardian period. (1840–1841) or David Copperfield** (1849–1850) in a Attending school for at least a few years was the norm, weekly newspaper. Many of Dickens’ works were even for poor children. But children would have also written for adults (think of Oliver Twist**, serialized read stories outside of school. from 1837 to 1839, which portrayed the challenges facing the most marginalized children of English society). Newspapers and magazines published serialized works, But Dickens did write at least one book specifically for and these may have found their way into the small youngsters: A Child’s History of England** (serialized hands of even impoverished children. Middle-class from 1851 to 1853; a 1901 edition is in the library). It is children may have been given full-length books, possibly easy to imagine this volume on the shelf in Quebec British classics or best-selling reprints, produced in City’s more privileged households. great quantities in North America at a time before copyright laws were in force. As the Victorian era gave way to the Edwardian period, books for very young readers gained a place on family Children of the elite had more access to books at home bookshelves. In 1922, Susan Albee gave children a real (think of leather-bound editions with lovely coloured gift: The Velveteen Rabbit*. The library has an plates). A nanny or governess may have read to them, illustrated 1975 edition. The fact that a new edition was and they may very well have received books as gifts for published more than fifty years after the original speaks birthdays and at Christmas. to the enduring appreciation of this little gem; chances

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are there will be a centenary edition. from 1845 to 1847, published in book form in 1889) may have been found, in their original French versions Beatrix Potter created not only Peter Rabbit* (1902), or in English translations, in any number of elite homes. but other memorable characters, including Squirrel Robert Louis Stevenson added to this genre with Nutkin* (1903), Mrs. Tiggy-Winkle* (1905), Tom Treasure Island* (1883) and Kidnapped * (1886), but Kitten* (1907), and Jemima Puddle-Duck* (1908). She he also wrote one of the first works of poetry aimed at published 23 small-format children’s books, in addition young readers: A Child’s Garden of Verse* (1885). to numerous other works. Not only did her characters’ names capture children’s imaginations, but Potter’s The first stories for children were oral ones, going back illustrations also were unforgettable. The Art of millennia. For examples of stories told in First Nations Beatrix Potter** (1955) has many of the illustrations communities, see Mohawk author-illustrator C. J. that continue to entice wee ones. Taylor’s adapted myths and legends in How Two- Feathers was Saved from Loneliness* (1990) and The Beatrix Potter was the magician who made up imaginary Monster from the Swamp* (1995). worlds for the youngest readers, whereas J. M. Barrie did the same for slightly older readers with his tales of Cyrus Macmillan gave children Canadian Wonder Peter Pan, Wendy, Captain Hook, and the Lost Boys. Tales** in 1918, followed by Canadian Fairy Tales in The library has a beautiful Folio edition of Peter Pan** 1922. For even more local flavour, a parent with a in the Special Collection. dollar or two could buy A Little Girl in Old Quebec** by Amanda M. Douglas (1906) or A Boy of Old Lewis Carroll also wrote about wondrous worlds for Quebec** by Orison Robbins (1926). And of course, older children (and for adults, who may have seen other there is Anne, the main character in Lucy Maude things through his magic mirror). His best-known works Montgomery’s still-popular books, beginning with Anne are Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland** (1865) and of Green Gables* (1908). Through the Looking Glass* (1871). Those who wish to learn more about Carroll’s works may enjoy Mavis Good books and exciting stories have been a part of Batey’s The World of Alice* (2011). children’s lives forever. May that continue. ■

Adventure stories were popular in the Victorian era. Alexander Dumas’ The Three Musketeers** (1844 in * On the shelf or in the library’s e-book collection. French; 1846 for the first English translation) and The ** In the library’s Special Collection; contact the Library Manager for access. Count of Monte Cristo (1844, serialized in English

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NEW ACQUISITIONS Some of the new titles in the Library collection are listed below. To reserve a book, please contact the library at 418-694-9147 or visit our online catalogue at morrin.org Transcription A Sorrowful 21 Lessons for Kate Atkinson Sanctuary the 21st A876 2018 Iona Whishaw Century Fiction W576 2018 Yuval Noah Fiction Harari 909.82 H254 Non-Fiction

Snap The Flame: All Our Belina Bauer Poems and Relations B344 2018 Selections from Tanya Talaga Fiction Notebooks 362.280 T137 Non-Fiction Leonard Cohen 819.12 C678 Poetry

French Exit The Never- Inkling Patrick deWitt Ending Present Kenneth Oppel D523 2018 Michael Barclay JF OPP 2018 Fiction 782.42 B244 Junior Fiction Biography

Washington All Things Margaret and Black Consoled: A the Moon Esi Edugyan Daughter’s Dean Robbins E24 2018 Memoir JB HAM 2017 Fiction Junior Elizabeth Hay Biography H412 2018 Biography

Something for When the Last The Color Everyone Lion Roars Monster: A Lisa Moore Sara Evans Story about M822 2018 599.75 E92 Emotions Fiction Non-Fiction Anna Llenas JP LLE 2018 Junior Picture

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WINTER 2018 LIBRARY PAGES DISCOVER OUR E-BOOK COLLECTION ON OVERDRIVE

Did you know that your membership to the Morrin Selections in our e-book collection range from popular Centre also includes access to our ever-expanding new releases and classics, to non-fiction titles, collection of e-books on the Overdrive system? With biographies, and children’s books. We even have Overdrive, you can read an e-book on an e-reader, audiobooks, which are perfect for a long car ride or tablet, computer, or smartphone. Thanks to a new app travel over the holidays! Recently, we’ve also added a called Libby, borrowing books through Overdrive is number of cookbooks to the collection. now even easier! Just download the app onto your smartphone or tablet, find the Morrin Centre library, Log into the Morrin Centre’s Overdrive system at and sign in with your library card. morrin.overdrive.com with your library card to check out some of our latest acquisitions. ■

Unsheltered Plenty More: Dorie’s Barbara Vibrant Cookies Kingsolver Vegetable Dorie Fiction Greenspan Cooking Cookbooks Yotam Ottolenghi Cookbooks Kingdom of Educated: A Mamushka: A the Blind Memoir Cookbook Louise Penny Tara Westover Olia Hercules Fiction Biography Cookbooks

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HAPPY 150TH BIRTHDAY TO THE LIBRARY!

In 2018, the Literary and Historical Society of and Bookshelves, historian Louisa Blair describes the Quebec’s library celebrated the 150th anniversary of its library’s move to the Morrin Centre as follows: “[O]n move to the Morrin Centre building! We marked the June 25, 1868, the Society paid four men 4s-6d per day special occasion with a birthday cake on Members’ for four days, and a carter with a horse and wagon 10s Day. a day, to move the LHSQ from the Masonic Hall to Morrin College.” In her chapter “Moose in Flames: The Story of the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec” in Iron Bars Here’s a glance back at the library over the years. ■

To learn more about the history of our charming Victorian library, pick up Iron Bars and Bookshelves, on sale at the Morrin Centre! 

The library in 1965, 1978, 2002, and today.

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THE 2018 LITERARY FEAST: DESJARDINS GROUP ANNOUNCES A $150,000 DONATION TO THE MORRIN CENTRE By Elizabeth Perreault

On November 15th, the Morrin Centre hosted the our Centre and its cultural programming.” Holleman tenth annual Literary Feast, its annual fundraising dinner also spoke of the importance for the Centre to that benefits its programming and its mission. The continue developing meaningful programming in the event started with a cocktail a r e a s o f h e r i t a g e in the Centre’s magnificent interpretation, education, Victorian library, which was and the arts for our followed by dinner in the community. The My Morrin historic College Hall. The series is an example of this, evening featured keynote as it allows members to speaker Ken Dryden, submit ideas for events and former NHL goalie and to contribute to shaping the former Member of Centre’s programming. Parliament, and was presided over by Guy The Morrin Centre’s Cormier, the President and members play a huge role CEO of Desjardins Group. in its success. Holleman explained that it is through Cormier received a Guy Cormier announces Desjardins Group’s $150,000 the support of our donation for the Morrin Centre’ new immersive tour resounding round of on capital punishment. community, members, applause from the over 140 patrons, and business guests present when he partners that the Centre announced that Desjardins has been able to reach our Group will be supporting a objectives and more. He new immersive tour on shared the news that capital punishment to be Marietta Freeland (1921- launched in May 2019. The 2017), a former member of donation of $150,000 over our community, created an three years will help ever-lasting connection to d e v e l o p t h i s n e w Quebec’s English-speaking educational activity for local community with her visitors, school groups, and generous bequest to tourists. Barry Holleman, several of its organizations, the President of the Literary including the Morrin and Historical Society of Serge Tourangeau receives a Lifetime Honourary Centre. In her honour, the Membership to the LHSQ from Barry Holleman Quebec, which manages our and Guy Cormier. Centre established the cultural hub, noted that Marietta Freeland Fund for “thanks to Desjardins the Arts. The entirety of Group's donation, we have secured all the necessary her bequest was used to start the fund and the revenue funding for an inspiring programme that we have been from it will be used to support the Arts Pillar planning for several years now. Our immersive tour on programming, including the My Morrin series, the Arts capital punishment will offer a new educational and fun Alive Festival, and more. activity for our visitors of all ages. Donations from foundations and corporations, such as Desjardins During his keynote speech, Dryden spoke of his Group, are crucial for the growth and permanence of connection to Quebec City, highlighting that his first

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 LITERARY FEAST (continued from previous page) of the Government of Canada’s Subcommittee on Sports-Related Concussions in Canada, which started professional game with the Montreal took on November 21st, 2018. place here against the Quebec Aces. He also came regularly to the city when he was a Member of During the Literary Feast, Dryden confirmed that he is Parliament to work with his fellow cabinet member, a “Renaissance man,” as he was recently described in Hélène Scherrer. the Montreal Gazette. He refuses to define himself in one category, saying that he is not solely a hockey After reminiscing about the time he spent in Quebec player, a writer, or a politician; he would rather be City over the years, Dryden talked about a cause that seen as someone who plays hockey, who writes, and he has recently embraced. He explained that there who does politics. were two books he felt he had to write: The For Dryden, it is no Game and The Home longer about just raising Game. The book he awareness. There must wanted to write, be a willingness to however, is Game transform awareness Change, his most recent into action. publication and the Unfortunately, he does topic of his presentation not believe that NHL at the Literary Feast. He Commissioner Gary explained that you can Bettman, the only understand Canada person he considers pretty well if you look capable of taking at hockey at a particular meaningful action, will moment. As a writer, do so in the short term. hockey allows Dryden In closing, Dryden to connect something Ken Dryden signs copies of Game Change shared that he had and hockey paraphernalia. that readers are really realized a few months interested in to a larger ago that Bettman, who is issue. Game Change shares the story of former NHLer also the first person to whom he gave a copy of Game Steve Montador and countless other professional Change, had decided that things are fine the way they players who live with life-diminishing symptoms are. The Hockey Hall of Famer received a standing because of head injuries that led to concussions and ovation that was followed by an engaging Q&A period. chronic traumatic encephalopathy. Dryden’s speech outlined the history of hockey and how the game has Thanks to ticket sales, sponsorships, donations, and evolved. In his view, the NHL has not properly the sale of books and auction items, the Centre raised responded to the issues that lead to an increasing over $47,000 during one of its most memorable number of head injuries—an opinion he said he wanted Literary Feasts to date. ■ to communicate as the opening witness at the hearings

The Morrin Centre would like to thank all of the Major Partners for this event: Desjardins Group, Québecor, La Maison Simons, McCarthy Tétrault, and the Quebec Chronicle-Telegraph. It is thanks to their support and the people present during the Literary Feast that the Morrin Centre is able to continue offering rich, engaging programming in the areas of heritage interpretation, education, and the arts.

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JACQUES POITRAS’ PIPE DREAMS AN OFF-IMAGINATION EVENT By Mark Lindenberg

On Tuesday, October Poitras summarized Quebec’s gradual shift regarding 2nd, 2018, the Morrin the Energy East pipeline. The book goes deeper, Centre hosted Jacques delving into both John Diefenbaker’s and Pierre Poitras, who spoke and Trudeau’s earlier, federal pipeline-related decisions, took questions about and looking at the corporate argument for pipelines in his new book, Pipe light of the 2013 Lac-Mégantic train explosion. Dreams: The Fight for Canada’s Energy Future. Poitras read an excerpt relating to environmental In it, Poitras, a political concerns in Cacouna, Quebec, the proposed location affairs reporter for CBC for a marine export terminal. These concerns New Brunswick, covers ultimately helped bring the Energy East project to a the years-long saga of halt. the TransCanada Corporation’s Energy But, as described in the book, it was not just protest East pipeline, from 2013 that helped kill the pipeline. Engineering challenges also to the project’s contributed to the project’s uncertainty. The challenge Pipe Dreams: The Fight for cancellation in 2017. under consideration? “Getting the pipeline under the Canada’s Energy Future by St. Lawrence.” Consultants described horizontal Jacques Poitras is available in the library: 338.2 P757 Poitras travelled the direction drilling as “technically feasible, but high risk.” proposed pipeline route across six provinces: Also risky: a meeting between former Premier Jean from Hardisty, Alberta to Saint John, New Brunswick. Charest, a consultant for TransCanada, and members Given the engineering, business, and political interests of the National Energy Board (NEB). Poitras told the involved, it is no wonder the project draws audience that “this became a concern about bias by the comparisons to the Canadian Pacific Railway. Poitras [NEB],” ultimately hampering the organization’s review quotes businessman and former politician Frank process. “The conservative politicians who like to McKenna describing the CPR as a “ribbon of steel blame Justin Trudeau for killing Energy East seem to [helping] knit the country together, both symbolically always forget that maybe didn’t exactly and economically.” McKenna characterizes the pipeline help the case, either,” he noted. as “another bold project, national in scope…a powerful symbol of Canadian unity.” Poitras closed his presentation by listing five lies about the Energy East pipeline. Chief among these, that the In his presentation, Poitras outlined the various risks to pipeline was the modern-day equivalent of the that ideal, politically, environmentally, and Canadian Pacific Railway. “A curious argument to commercially. Particularly intriguing were the nuances make,” Poitras noted, given that the CPR fell victim to with respect to Quebec’s interest in the project. many problems: land speculation, shoddy and unsafe Poitras recalled an aide to then-New Brunswick construction, conflicts of interest, and the displacement Premier David Alward saying to him: “[Pauline Marois] of thousands of Indigenous people on the prairies, to wanted to make sure the pipeline was good for name only a few. Quebec, but she had no objection to the fact that it was important for the rest of the country… and was “I didn’t want to tell people what to think; I wanted to approaching it with the best of intentions.” tell them what to think about,” said Poitras. Pipe Dreams does just that, providing readers a nuanced, accessible look at local and national issues. ■

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THE MORRIN CENTRE AT THE 2018 SALON DES MARIÉS By Vivianne Carrier

Hearts melted at the sight of clients, make several contacts in the decor and the flower the field of events and weddings arrangements at the Morrin planning, and showcase all of Centre’s booth during the 2018 the possibilities that our Salon des Mariés (bridal trade magnificent building has to offer. show) on October 20–21st at In addition to being an the Centre des Foires de important heritage site and a Québec. Thanks to our cultural hub, the Morrin Centre partners La Vie est une Fête is the perfect location for your and Elodie Fleuriste, we were most memorable life events. able to re-create an atmosphere That’s why our team goes out that would amaze any guest and presents our fantastic attending a vintage-style organization at key trade shows wedding at the Morrin Centre. around Quebec—and why you This bridal trade show gave should give our event Rentals Coordinator Manon superheroes a call when it’s Fortin and Events Coordinator your turn to plan your own Vivianne Carrier a chance to special occasion. ■ meet over 2,000 potential

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WAYAN AND THE TURLE KING YVETTE BEZUIDENHOUT’S INSPIRING STORY ABOUT PRESERVING OUR ECOSYSTEM By Azanie Roy

On September 29th, 2018, animals. For instance, avoiding plastic straws and single- children were invited to an use plastic bags, as well as going to no-waste stores, interactive activity led by author where they can buy products that are not packaged in Yvette Bezuidenhout at the plastic containers. Morrin Centre’s library. Yvette is the author of the book Wayan Wayan and the Turtle King can be purchased online in and the Turtle King, which either paperback or e-book format. All the proceeds encourages young readers to from sales of her book go toward a literacy project to change their consumption habits enable the printing, translation, and distribution of in order to protect marine Wayan and the Turtle King in Indonesia and other wildlife. The book tells the story countries. For her reading at the Morrin Centre, she of a young boy named Wayan, donated her book sales to help with the relief effort whose village relies on the ocean for food. One day, following the recent earthquake in Indonesia. Wayan becomes aware of a problem: the ocean life is getting sick from all the plastic the villagers have left Yvette gives free presentations of her book in schools everywhere. and strives to educate children and adults alike about the importance of preserving our ecosystems. As she The children attending the Morrin Centre event that puts it herself: “I have a duty to do everything in my morning were captivated by Yvette’s presentation of power to protect my blue planet. This is my way of her book—they were heartbroken when they saw the sharing my love for the ocean and its creatures with Turtle King getting sick because of a plastic straw stuck kids who don’t necessarily have the means to SUP in his nose. Through games and a colouring activity, the (Stand-Up Paddleboard), snorkel or swim.’’ children learned what they can do to help protect ■

MORRIN YOUTH PROGRAMMING By Azanie Roy

Exciting activities for youth are taking place at the Tuesday evenings are reserved for children ages 8 to Morrin Centre! This winter, children interested in 12. On every second Tuesday evening, children reading, the arts, and the sciences can come explore interested in drama can participate in improvisation and their passions with other children in a variety of new a variety of theatrical games with the new Theatre and activities at the Morrin Centre. Improvisation Club. Those who are interested in the sciences can come on alternate Tuesdays to the On Saturdays, children ages 3 to 10 are invited to S.T.E.M. Club, where they will be introduced to Storytime, an interactive reading activity in which they different scientific concepts. During each club meeting, are encouraged to ask and answer questions about the the participants will be given a S.T.E.M. challenge, which book. Each session begins with the reading of a story will encourage them to problem-solve and experiment connected to the theme of the week. For the second with using their creativity and teamwork skills. half of the session, children can participate in a ■ S.T.E.A.M. (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) activity that links the sciences and the arts.

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MEET OUR NEW EDUCATION COORDINATOR AZANIE ROY

wondered how her mother could ever think she might be interested in reading about a weird looking bespectacled boy attending a magic school in England. Nevertheless, because this was a present, Azanie thought she should at least read the first chapter.

That evening was the first of many that Azanie spent reading a book through the night. Enchanted by the words flowing from one page to the next, never wanting to put the book down, she quickly finished the first of the Harry Potter books and then moved on to the others. Over the years, she discovered new genres of books; she is particularly fascinated by biographies written by authors from around the world. Azanie was inspired by the stories of great men and women, such as Greg Mortenson, who built and taught in impoverished schools for girls in Afghanistan, and Lisa French Baker, who worked as nurse during the War in Darfur.

Azanie attended the University of Ottawa, studying International Development and Globalization. Through her studies, she became increasingly aware of the importance of education in alleviating poverty. After teaching English for a few months in the small town of Taxco, Mexico, she decided to return to university to become a teacher. After her studies, she remained in Ottawa, where she taught for three years in the French public school board.

Azanie is now the Education Coordinator at the It was a breezeless afternoon in an ordinary suburb of Morrin Centre. She leads the Storytimes every Quebec City. Azanie Roy was going about her everyday Saturday, making sure to include books on a variety of summer vacation routine, which mainly consisted of different subjects to promote sciences and the arts. She running away from her ever-so-clingy little brother. also founded the “Tuesday Youth Programming,” When her mother arrived that late afternoon, she where, on alternate Tuesdays, children ages 8 to 12 are handed the wide-eyed child a present wrapped in introduced to the foundations of performing arts bright purple colours. Unwrapping it excitedly, Azanie’s during the “Theatre and Improvisation Club” and to face sunk when she saw what lay beneath the gleaming scientific principles during the S.T.E.M. (science, paper. It was a plain, simple looking book with a technology, engineering, math) Club. She is delighted to hideous image of three students wearing witch-like have the opportunity to share her passion for science clothing on the cover. Azanie knew the ornate and the arts with children who attend the Morrin decorations on the package were once again one of her Centre’s activities. And, as her mother once did for mother's attempts to convince her that reading was, as her, she strives to help children develop a love of she put it, “fun.” Reading the book’s synopsis, Azanie reading and learning. ■

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WINTER 2018 MISCELLANEA HEALTHFUL HOLIDAYS TRADITION WITH A TWIST By Mary McCown

’Tis the season to be kind and generous. During the making a fuss in the kitchen this one, and only, time of holiday season, we tend to focus on others, but it’s year is part of the holiday excitement. important to take care of ourselves too. Think about it, before any plane takes flight, the message is clear: Oh, but what about the leftover turkey sandwiches? “secure your own oxygen masks before assisting Don’t fret! Try the chickpea salad sandwich on page others.” A good way to do that is to stay strong and 105. The only problem with this dish is that there were healthy with good nutrition. no leftovers.

The Morrin Centre has a In the Oh She Glows cookbook, wonderful cookbook section you’ll find a plethora of chock-full of healthy recipes, delicious (and nutrient power- gift ideas, delectable desserts, house) breakfast options like and soul-lifting juice and Maple-Cinnamon Apple & Pear smoothies, certain to brighten Baked Oatmeal. The up the dreariest winter day. mouthwatering desserts, like the Fudgy Mocha Pudding This edition of the Wellness Cake or the Double Layer Corner focuses on vegetarian Chocolate Fudge Cake, will recipes. What better way to surprise you (you don’t have support our health while being to tell anyone that they are kind to the planet at the same healthy). time? Here’s a surprising fact: according to an in The In the “Homemade Staples” Guardian, it takes more than chapter you will find healthy 2,000 litres of water to gift ideas too. Who wouldn’t produce one hamburger! love to receive a homemade Replacing one meat dish with Ten-Spice Blend as a gift? After one vegetarian dish reduces all, according to a study that water footprint. published by the National Institute of Health, “several So bundle up, put on your spices are potential sources snow boots, and get out to the The Oh She Glows Cookbook: Vegan Recipes To Glow for prevention and treatment From The Inside Out by Angela Liddon is available in Morrin Centre to borrow the the library: 641.5636 L712 of cancers, such as Curcuma cookbook Oh She Glows by longa (turmeric), Nigella sativa Angela Liddon. Your festive holiday table can include (black cumin), Zingiber officinale (ginger), Allium sativum crowd-pleasers like a Lentil Walnut Loaf (page 167), (garlic), Crocus sativus (saffron), Piper nigrum (black roasted brussels sprouts, fingerling potatoes and pepper) and Capsicum annum (chili pepper).” There are rosemary (page 205), and rainbow carrots (page 190) great gift ideas for those in your life with a sweet tooth with a festive kale salad (page 121). too: pumpkin butter or pumpkin pie pecan butter or crunchy maple-cinnamon roasted almond butter! Ok, These recipes have been tried and approved by a time to eat! Check out the Morrin Centre’s cookbook somewhat picky 6-year-old taste tester. The recipes collection. are simple and straightforward, with the exception of the lentil walnut loaf. This recipe has a few steps, but Happy Healthy Holidays, Y’all! ■

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SOCIETY PAGES MISCELLANEA THE TWELVE POP SONGS OF CHRISTMAS By Barry McCullough

Generally in this space, you read an album review. For Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight the holidays, I have changed things up a little. In the Tonight) – The Ramones (1989) spirit of the “12 Days of Christmas,” a song you most This is what we should all hope for: a drama-free definitely will not find in the list below, I present to you Christmas! twelve twelve-word reviews of pop Christmas songs. Christmas All Over Again – Tom Petty and the This list does not feature any traditional Christmas Heartbreakers (1993) songs, nor does it cover versions of Christmas classics. I Jangly and upbeat, Tom Petty kind of missed his long- have tried to include several genres: rock, rap, country, distance relatives. pop, indie and more. Without further ado, here is the Christmastime – The Smashing Pumpkins (1997) list: Billy Corgan’s take on a Christmas original, complete with strings and xylophone.

THE TWELVE POP SONGS OF CHRISTMAS Xmas Time is Here Again – My Morning Jacket (2000)

Blue Christmas – Elvis Presley (1957) Smooth vocal harmonies, wishes for a Merry Christmas, So mournful you think he’ll cry by the time he sings and sleigh bell percussion.

“blue.” That Was the Worst Christmas Ever! – Sufjan

Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree – Brenda Stevens (2003) Lee (1958) A sad holiday tale that would fit on Sufjan’s album Seven A very fun Christmas song—I dare you to not sing Swans. along. Christmas Will Break Your Heart – LCD

Someday at Christmas – Stevie Wonder (1967) Soundsystem (2015) The situation is very urgent, even dire, but the message Frontman James Murphy called it a “depressing is hopeful. Christmas song.” Still, it’s nice.

Pretty Paper – Willie Nelson (1979) Silent Night – Tom Waits Orbison’s version was prettier, but, c’mon, it’s Willie Ok, so I broke my own rules, but if you think you have and he wrote it. heard every possible type of version of Silent Night, you need to hear this. Rough, desperate, and beautiful. Christmas in Hollis – Run-DMC (1988) Christmas is supposed to be joyous and that’s what this Think of this as a playlist to accompany all of your song is. holiday favourites. I hope you enjoy some of the songs on this list over the holiday season! ■

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