- 2026-10-08The construction between 1854 and 1860 of the 2,009-metre Victoria Tubular Bridge was recognized worldwide as an outstanding engineering achievement.…
- 2026-10-08Dorimène Desjardins is today recognized as the co-founder of the caisses populaires, one of Canada’s most important co-operative financial movements.…
- 2026-10-08Medical superintendent at Grosse Île for thirty years, and later responsible for all the quarantine stations in Canada, Dr. Frederick…
- 2026-10-08At a time when francophone universities remained closed to women, Irma LeVasseur moved to the United States to study medicine…
- 2026-10-08Founded in 1900 by Alphonse Desjardins and his wife Dorimène, caisses populaires provided access to saving and credit services for…
- 2026-10-08Calixa Lavallée was one of the first Canadian musicians to win an international reputation. He studied in Montréal and Paris…
- 2026-10-08Built in 1858, this lighthouse is one of a series of tall, tapering towers erected on the Gulf of St.…
- 2026-10-08The dramatic curved facade of this theatre in the Beaux-Arts style evokes the exuberance of the grand theatres of the…
- 2026-10-08Born at L’Islet, P.Q., Captain Bernier was a skilled navigator who travelled widely in the Canadian north between 1904 and…
- 2026-10-08Construction of this building was begun about 1836 for former Deputy Commissary General C. J. Forbes, who had retired, here,…