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N U M B E R 4 4 ■ Spring 2015 ■ $ 2 . 0 0 ■ IMAGINATION WRITERS’ FESTIVAL: THIS YEAR’S ROUNDUP ■ PERFORMING SURGERY ON TIGERS, MONKEYS & ELEPHANTS ■ SLEATER-KINNEY’S FIRST ALBUM IN TEN YEARS The Morrin Centre is managed by the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec. Society Pages are published with the assistance of Canada Post. Quebec Heritage News Subscribe Now! Quebec’s English-language heritage magazine. Popular history – Profiles of remarkable people and events – Contemporary issues in heritage conservation – Book reviews – Insightful commentary – and much more. Individual: $30 for 1 year; $75 for 3 years; $120 for 5 years Institutional: $40 for 1 year; $100 for 3 years; $160 for 5 years To pay by cheque, please mail payment to: QAHN, 400-257 rue Queen, Sherbrooke QC J1M 1K7. or pay by Paypal to: [email protected]. For more information, call (819) 564-9595 Toll free: 1-877-964-0409. CONTENT Jessica Kelly-Rhéaume LAYOUT Patrick Donovan PROOFREADING NUMBER 44 ■ SPRING 2015 Louisa Blair ■ PUBLISHER CONTENTS Literary & Historical Society of Quebec 44 chaussée des Écossais Quebec, Quebec G1R 4H3 PHONE 418-694-9147 Letter from the President 1 Sovita Chander FAX 418-694-0754 GENERAL INQUIRIES From the Executive Director 1 Barry McCullough [email protected] WEBSITE www.morrin.org Transactions ■ Bob the Good Vet 2 Léa Fischer-Albert LHSQ COUNCIL [email protected] Library Pages Sovita Chander, President Ladd Johnson, Vice-President Gina Farnell, Treasurer On the Shelf: The Shelf Challenge 4 Britta Gundersen-Bryden Shauneen Furlong, Secretary Donald Fyson, Honorary Librarian Barry Holleman, Member at Large New Acquisitions 6 Bruce Laurie, Member at Large Peter Black William GK Boden Events & Activities Jack Bryden Katherine Burgess Diana Cline ImagiNation 7 Jacob Stone Hélène Thibault Volunteer Appreciation Night 10 Shirley Nadeau David F. Blair, Ex-Officio Miscellanea ■ DIRECTOR Introducing Caroline Labrie 11 Barry McCullough Executive Director [email protected] Music Review: Sleater-Kinney 11 Barry McCullough FULL-TIME STAFF Gail Cameron Accounting & Financial Clerk [email protected] Rosemarie Fischer LIBRARY HOURS Administrative Assistant [email protected] Stefanie Johnston Guided Tours Coordinator Sunday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] Jessica Kelly-Rhéaume Library Manager Monday CLOSED [email protected] Caroline Labrie Rentals and Events Coordinator Tuesday 12:00PM-8:00PM [email protected] Elizabeth Perreault Program and Communications Director Wednesday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] Hoffman Wolff Thursday 12:00PM-8:00PM Interim Program and Communications Director [email protected] Friday 12:00PM-4:00PM ■ The mission of the Morrin Centre Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM is to share and foster English-language culture in the Quebec City region. The Morrin Centre is administered by the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec. Front cover: At a Children’s Storytime in the Morrin Centre Library, author and ISSN 1913-0732 member Louisa Blair shows a group of budding authors how she made her new book (Daisy and the Donkey Church), and then helps them make their own books. SOCIETY PAGES LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Dear members and supporters, first-time members. The initiative was a resounding success and we welcomed 142 new members last year. With spring upon us, I am excited Given the positive response, we have decided to extend about all of the events and the offer for 2015. So please pass the word on to activities lined up for next few friends and relatives. months. April brings the ImagiNation Writers’ Festival, We have been working hard on the fundraising initiative which is one of my favourite times and there are many exciting projects currently in of the year at the Morrin Centre. I am proud to say development. These innovative programs are based on that, year after year, the quality of the events and our three pillars of Heritage, Education and the Arts authors presented is on par with Canada’s best literary and will change the shape of the Centre and its festivals. I can’t wait! programs. I’m thrilled with the progress the Centre has made in By the time you read this, we will have wrapped up our increasing self-generated revenue, specifically in tours 190th Annual General Meeting. On behalf of Council, I and rentals. I encourage you, our members, to consider would like to take the time to thank William Boden for renting the Centre for your next business meeting. his 11 years on the board. His accounting expertise was There are beautiful and inspiring spaces available for all incredibly valued and will be missed, but I know that we types and sizes of meetings with great catering options will continue to see Bill around. available. Wishing you a warm spring, As you may remember, in 2014, Council made the decision to offer a special $20 introductory offer to Sovita Chander FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Members and partners, Pages, including the full line-up of author bios. There is really something for everyone this year from fiction to Well, we’re just wrapping up the journalism to cooking. I really hope that you’ll join us coldest month in Quebec in the for some or all of the festival! past 115 years, but the Morrin Centre was a great place to stay On behalf of the Morrin Centre staff, I am thrilled to warm and take in an event or a welcome our new Rentals Coordinator, Caroline tour or just read the paper with a Labrie, to the team. You can read a little more about cup of coffee in the library. her later in this issue. It’s hard to believe that the year is already a quarter In January we hosted our annual volunteer appreciation down and, if you’ve been following our website or night, which is always a very special event. It’s a Facebook, you’ll know that 2015 has already been jam- wonderful occasion for us show our gratitude to the packed with a great calendar of cultural programming. people who donate their time to help make the Morrin Folk, jazz, history, workshops, literature, we’ve had it Centre such a dynamic place. I would like to thank all of all. Things won’t be slowing down anytime soon with a our members, partners and volunteers for their ton of cultural programming coming your way in the continued support. Without you none of what we do next few months. would be possible. Speaking of which, it’s hard to believe it, but our sixth Happy spring, annual ImagiNation Writers’ Festival is just around the corner, taking place from April 8 – 12. You will see lots Barry McCullough of ImagiNation coverage throughout this issue of Society PAGE 1 SPRING 2015 TRANSACTIONS PROFILE OF A MEMBER BOB THE GOOD VET By Léa Fischer-Albert, with the collaboration of Philippe Patenaude and Anne Parrot Robert (Bob) Patenaude, a LHSQ member since He is a founding member of l'Union québécoise de October 2013, has dedicated almost 40 years of his life réhabilitation des oiseaux de proie and he is currently to the protection of Quebec president of The Provancher fauna. In 2014, the Wildlife Society. Bob was the first truly Disease Association presented skilled and active wildlife him with the Emeritus Award, veterinarian in Canada, and a prize given to a distinguished until British Columbia hired retired member who has one in the late 1980s, he was contributed significantly Canada’s only provincial throughout his career to the wildlife veterinarian. advancement of knowledge about wildlife diseases. Bob was not only a veterinarian at work, he was Originally from Edmonton, also one at home! The Alberta, Bob and his family Patenaude family was a foster came to live in Quebec home for various animals around 1963 when his father, throughout Bob's career: dogs, who worked for the Canadian of course, but also snakes, a Pacific Railways, was goat and even a lynx. The transferred to Quebec. neighborhood kids found it so cool that there was actually a In 1972, Bob gained his line-up at the front door to veterinary degree (DMV) at visit the lynx! Whenever birds Canada’s only francophone would fall out of trees, veterinary college, l’Université neighborhood kids would de Montréal, St-Hyacinthe come to Bob's house to make Campus. sure they were rescued. Philippe and Anne-Marie, his He immediately embarked on two children, found that they a remarkable 39-year career had the best dad in the world, with Le Ministère des ressources because they always had VIP naturelles et de la faune treatment when they went to (MRNF), Quebec’s wildlife Bob Patenaude with Elephant the zoo: they could pet most agency. Bob had many different responsibilities: he was of the animals and even feed the chimps! And of course, Director of the Laboratoire des expertises bio-légales, their Bob was, and is still, always available when people call at wildlife forensic laboratory. As it developed, he added home to have information about wildlife. supervision of the Veterinary Section to his responsibilities, a contract that he maintained until he Now that he is retired, Bob still keeps busy. In the last retired. He also participated in various research few years, he has taught courses, participated in various programs on wildlife and, at the same time, was head zoo accreditations, organized conferences for The veterinarian at the Jardin Zoologique du Québec and Provancher Society, etc. We are proud that he is a the Aquarium du Québec. He worked at both places member of the LHSQ, and we heartily congratulate him until the zoo closed in 2006. Subsequently, Bob served for being awarded the prestigious Médaille de St. Eloi in as scientific advisor to the Director of Wildlife and 2006 and the Emeritus Award of the Wildlife Disease Habitats with the MRNF until his retirement in 2011.
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    ART-ROCK LEGENDS PYLON TO RELEASE PYLON BOX ​ NOVEMBER 6, 2020, VIA NEW WEST RECORDS COMPREHENSIVE 4xLP BOX SET REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL TAPES FEATURES EIGHTEEN UNRELEASED RECORDINGS INCLUDES 200-PAGE HARDBOUND BOOK WITH WRITINGS BY MEMBERS OF R.E.M., GANG OF FOUR, THE B-52’s, SONIC YOUTH, SLEATER-KINNEY, MISSION OF BURMA, DEERHUNTER, STEVE ALBINI, ANTHONY DECURTIS, AND MORE STANDALONE REISSUES OF STUDIO LPS GYRATE (1980) AND CHOMP ​ ​ ​ (1983) TO BE RELEASED ON VINYL FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NEARLY 35 YEARS; AVAILABLE ACROSS DIGITAL PLATFORMS TODAY PYLON COLLECTION EXHIBIT TO OPEN SEPTEMBER 18 AT THE ​ HARGRETT LIBRARY, UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA SPECIAL COLLECTIONS BUILDING JITTERY JOE’S COFFEE ROASTING COMPANY ANNOUNCES PYLON BUZZ ​ BLEND INDUCTED INTO THE ATHENS MUSIC WALK OF FAME NPR MUSIC EXPLORES PYLON’S LASTING INFLUENCE WITH ​ UNRELEASED RECORDINGS “THE HUMAN BODY” & “3X3 (LIVE)” TODAY Seminal art-rock legends Pylon will release Pylon Box on November 6, 2020, via New ​ West Records. The comprehensive 4xLP box set includes their studio albums Gyrate ​ (1980) and Chomp (1983), which have been remastered from their original tapes and ​ ​ will be available on vinyl for the first time in nearly 35 years. Pylon Box includes 47 total ​ tracks, 18 of which are previously unreleased recordings. In addition to the remastered studio albums, the collection also includes Pylon’s first ever recording, Razz Tape. The ​ ​ previously unreleased 13-track session predates the band’s legendary 1979 debut single “Cool” b/w “Dub.” Also included is Extra, an 11-song collection featuring a recording ​ ​ made before frontwoman Vanessa Briscoe Hay joined the band, along with the “Cool” b/w “Dub” single (which Rolling Stone named one of the “100 Greatest Debut Singles ​ of All Time” this year), the rare recording “Recent Title,” the original single mix of “Crazy,” five previously unreleased studio and live recordings, and more.