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Literary Feast Events & Activities N U M B E R 2 6 ■ WINTER 2010 ■ $ 2 . 0 0 ■ ■ LITERARY EVENTS & FEAST ACTIVITIES ■ ■ The Morrin Centre is managed by the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec ■ Published with the assistance of Canada Post ■ EDITOR Simon Jacobs [email protected] DESIGN David Dupuis www.frmrg.ca NUMBER 26 ■ WINTER 2010 ■ PUBLISHER Literary and Historical Society of Quebec CONTENT 44, chaussée des Écossais Québec (Québec) G1R 4H3 PHONE Letter from the President 1 David F. Blair 418-694-9147 FAX From the Executive Director 2 Simon Jacobs 418-694-0754 GENERAL INQUIRIES [email protected] WEBSITE Transactions www.morrin.org ■ Lord Bury and Sophia McNab 3 Professor Donald B. Smith LHSQ COUNCIL David F. Blair, President Library Pages Steve Cameron, Vice-President Wish List 4 James Haberlin, Treasurer Marie C Tremblay, Honorary Librarian Book Reviews 5 Simon Auclair Peter Black Dominik Parisien Louisa Blair William GK Boden Events & Activities Sovita Chander Morrin Calendar—Winter 2010 6 Erin Zoellner James Donovan Judith Dunn 2009 Quebec City Celtic Festival 11 Ladd Johnson Rob Lemon Fundraising Lorraine O’Donnell Celebrating the Morrin Centre 12 Marie Rubsteck Hélène Thibault [email protected] ■ Special Thanks 13 DIRECTORS Simon Jacobs Executive Director [email protected] Barry McCullough Director of Administration [email protected] LIBRARY HOURS Marie Rubsteck Director of Development Sunday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] FULL-TIME STAFF Monday CLOSED Simon Auclair Tuesday 12:00PM-9:00PM Library Manager [email protected] Wednesday 12:00PM-4:00PM Valérie Deslauriers Administrative Assistant Thursday 12:00PM-4:00PM [email protected] Erin Zoellner Friday 12:00PM-4:00PM Cultural Activities Coordinator [email protected] Saturday 10:00AM-4:00PM ■ The mission of the Morrin Centre is to share PLEASE NOTE: LIBRARY WILL BE and foster English-language culture in the Quebec City region. The Morrin Centre is CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 23 UNTIL JANUARY 5 administered by the Literary & Historical Society of Quebec. ■ ISSN 1913-0732 Front cover: Unveiling of the Donor Plaque, Photo by Chrystian Paquet LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT In April 2004, the Mayor of Quebec City and long-time Despite this, staff and the executive committee have supporter of LHSQ, M. J.P. L’Allier, signed a historic been diligently pursuing commitment for funding. I am agreement whereby the Morrin centre building was extremely pleased to report that the Jeffery Hale transferred to our Society by emphyteutic lease for 99 Foundation has recently provided a commitment years. In return, we undertook to restore the building specifically for this propose to add to those of and establish the Morrin centre, the English language provincial and federal grants. Furthermore, during his cultural centre of Quebec City. recent visit to the Centre, renowned LHSQ support, the Mayor, Regis Labaume found himself locked in one As you all know the major phases of the restoration of the historic dark cells. His appreciation of the have been completed and the cultural programming of importance of the historic site along with his temporary the centre is growing and expanding with each season. captivity allowed him to be convinced to undertake to support our efforts to the final phase by making a There does however, remain one final phase of the promise for further funding from the City Hall. restoration to complete our undertaking to the City. This includes plans to restore and develop the two In all seriousness, I would like to thank Mayor Labaume historic cellblocks on the main floor and the chemistry for his unwavering support of our Society, the Morrin lab and offices on the third floor, as well as a multitude Centre and indeed the English community. For the final of lesser but equally burdensome tasks to bring the thrust, we are at last beginning to see light at the end of building up to code and allow us to be fully functional the tunnel. and open to the public. As an example, this includes discreetly raising the height of the railings of the I take this opportunity to wish all members and their balconies in a way that protects the public while families a Joyous Holiday and a peaceful healthy and preserving the unique charm of these beautiful and prosperous New Year. historic rooms. Fundraising for this final phase is perhaps the hardest for both private donors and governments are not drawn by the glamour of a new project with this type of David F. Blair request. PAGE 1 SOCIETY PAGES FROM THE EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR I have now been here for five months and I am finally We have also had an ambitious cultural event calendar getting the hang of the job (hopefully nothing to do with this fall, with many different activities. So many, in fact, what they did to prisoners above the front door). In that we have made a change to our website (under reality, it is still the logistics of the on-going building ‘Calendar of Events’) to make it easier to see what is on restorations that occupy much of my time. The Capital and retrieve information. There are many cultural Campaign finished with 4.1 million dollars raised, an events planned for this winter too, so I hope we will incredible feat especially for such a small community. have a chance to see you there at some of them. One However, in order to finish the restoration we still project that we are currently working on is a writers’ need around $900,000. I am in the process of applying festival to be held from April 7 to 12 in partnership with for grants and negotiating with different public funding the Salon du livre. We will have more on that when the partners and hope to have some solid news in the near details have been finalized. future. That said, we can not count on all of the funding coming from the public purse, so I urge our members Please note that we are in the process of changing our to keep up donations. telephone answering system so that you will be able to phone in to get information at any time, such as the Things have been busy since the last publication of library hours and event times. Society Pages. We held a very successful 4th annual Celtic Festival with over 6,500 participants, followed by the I wish you and your family a very Happy Holiday Season delightful Literary Feast with the Right Honourable and a Happy New Year and look forward to seeing you Adrienne Clarkson, the former Governor General of at the Morrin Centre when you are next here. Canada as our honorary President, and her husband, the author and lecturer John Ralston Saul, as the keynote speaker. PAGE 2 WINTER 2010 TRANSACTIONS LORD BURY AND SOPHIA MACNAB By Professor Donald B. Smith The recent Canadian tour of Camilla, Duchess of “In his habits, he was extravagant, always living beyond Cornwall and her husband Prince Charles, Prince of his means, but a kind husband and an indulgent father.” Wales, has brought to light her Canadian lineage. Her In Quebec City the accomplished young woman, very great-great grandmother, Sophia MacNab, was socially at ease, assisted her father as his official hostess, Canadian. Sophia MacNab and Camilla’s great-great- after her father became prime minister of the Province grandfather, William Coutts Keppel, or Lord Bury, met of Canada in September 1854. and courted in Quebec City during the winter of 1854-55. A woman's reminiscence of the They married at Dundurn young aristocrat survives, one Castle on November 15, 1855. that suggests why Sophia might have become interested in him. Donald Smith spoke last month Lady Harriet Sarah Wantage, (October 28) at the Morrin the wife of his life-long friend Centre on, "Young Bury. A and cousin, Robert Lindsay, Year in the Life of an English Lord Wantage, wrote: “Bury Aristocrat in the Canadian was clever, versatile, light- Capital, 1854-55." At our hearted, brilliant in talk, request he has written a short endowed with quick perception account for SOCIETY PAGES and the power of rapid mastery on the courtship of Lord Bury of any subject he took up, and and Sophia MacNab. full of life and energy.” At some point in the winter of Lord Bury's friendship with 1854/55 Lord Bury had Sophia came with one occasion to meet Sophia complication. She was Catholic. MacNab, then the capital of the In both contemporary England Province of Canada (as Quebec and in English-speaking Canada and Ontario were then known). anti-Catholicism was fierce. Although the exact date and Many Protestants in Canada location in the city remain feared and distrusted Rome. unrecorded, one thing is Moreover, Lord Bury was a certain. The young English direct descendant of Walter aristocrat, then serving as the Lord Bury, 1857, Suffolk Record Office, Ipswich Branch Joost van Keppel from the governor general's secretary Netherlands, an adherent of and his Superintendent of Indian Affairs, immediately William of Orange, the champion of Protestantism in found the outgoing Sophia attractive, physically and Britain in the late seventeenth century. Albemarle, the personally. A sketch that he drew of her confirms her Keppel family's English title, had been given for the first beauty. The talented young woman had studied music Earl's services to the Protestant Crown. Yet, despite his with composer Charles Ambrose, the organist at Protestant lineage, William Coutts Keppel, accepted Hamilton's Christ Church Cathedral. A surviving diary without issue Sophia's Catholicism, for he believed, written by her as a girl of thirteen confirms how “universal tolerance in religion is most important.” observant she was.
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