city hall (1850). It was not until after he had designed the Champlain market (1858) that Lecourt broke away from this tradition and turned towards the less austere Italian Renaissance, which employed
facsimile reprint of the (Œuvres de Champlain that year
Flandrin. The most important church decorations still in existence are those of Saint-Michel in Vaudreuil, Notre-Dame-de-la-Visitation in Champlain, Saint-Philippe in Saint-Philippe-d’Argenteuil (Saint
him to reconcile all interests when it came to the commission’s choice of sites for hotels, docks, and elevators. His plan to close down the Champlain market at Quebec aroused sharp opposition. Armand
. . . .
Taché would promote the first large commemorative monuments at Quebec, including that of Samuel de Champlain* (1898). Bent on embellishing
included those of Samuel de Champlain*, François-Xavier
junior positions before being appointed secretary to the president and the general manager. In 1884 he became superintendent of the Ogdensburg and Lake Champlain Railroad, which provided the Central
Neptune and a Wolfe for two commercial buildings at Quebec (1901), a bust of Champlain for the capital’s tercentenary (1908), and a Frontenac and a Lord Elgin for
stories of Samuel de Champlain*, Jacques Cartier*, Huronia, and the like
”), six historical plays (Colomb dans les fers, La découverte du Canada, Champlain, Maisonneuve
Bain*, of the Champlain Society, an organization which publishes historical documents. His interest in history also led him to serve the National
], “Discours de M. Albert Sorel,” dans Léon Le Clerc, Champlain, célébré par les Normands et les Canadiens : mémorial des fêtes données à Honfleur les 13, 14 & 15 aout 1905 (Honfleur
Blondin* for the neighbouring riding of Champlain. Bureau’s anti-conscription fervour and his unshakeable loyalty to Laurier helped him regain some of
. [G.] Shaw, Our Lady of the Cape, (Montreal, 1954). E[ugenie] Talusier, Autour du clocher natal: notes historiques sur la paroisse de Saint-Prosper, comté de Champlain (Trois-Rivières
negotiations with the federal government concerning the sale of the Champlain market, the creation of the Union (Palace) station, and the National Transcontinental Railway factories
England, he brought out an edition of Samuel de Champlain*’s Voyages, began publishing his own translation of Marc
her heavy involvement. Further attacks drained his energy, and he experienced pain doing practically everything except walking. On Anne’s initiative, they built a summer house on Lake Champlain in
. (n.p., 1908); Speeches, by Hon. Rodolphe Lemieux, postmaster general of Canada, delivered at the Champlain Tercentenary, 1909 (n.p., [1909]); Speech delivered by the Honourable Rodolphe
(Toronto, 1913). In the same year he sent off an almost-completed book-length manuscript to the Champlain Society, but it was rejected because it was a long narrative history rather than a collection of