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I would think almost everyone in southern Manitoba has been there. The St Boniface hospital is an important hospital here. I think all heart patients are referred there.
No it isn’t: the University of Alberta has a French-language campus: Campus St-Jean
More than just that, the U of A Faculty of Law has a moot (i.e. debate) every year in French. A law school classmate of mine took part; his first language is French, and he did himself proud in that moot.
We are still in touch professionally and personally, but I'm still thankful to him for handing me coffee when I, half-asleep, staggered in the doors of the law school in time for our 8:00 am class. He could handle early mornings; I could not. But we both made it through--me, perhaps mostly because of the coffee he always had ready for me.
I happened to be in St Boniface when the Cathedral was burning. Now, that was sad as everyone standing there watching it burn confronted the possibility and expressed it that we had seen the real deal for the last time. We all felt that it would not be rebuilt to it's grandeur and we were right.
I happened to be in St Boniface when the Cathedral was burning. Now, that was sad as everyone standing there watching it burn confronted the possibility and expressed it that we had seen the real deal for the last time. We all felt that it would not be rebuilt to it's grandeur and we were right.
St-Boniface has (or had) almost a mythical place for francophones as French Canada's outpost or beach-head in the West.
As with most such things it has largely faded from the everyday mindspace in Quebec but there is still some residual consciousness that remains.
The late author Gabrielle Roy who was from there probably has more currency in contemporary Quebec than even Louis Riel does.
Her books are still widely read here, and lots of stuff is named for her in Quebec: the main campus of the junior college here in Gatineau bears her name, as does the main library branch in Quebec City in addition to many other libraries and cultural institutions across Quebec. They've also made movies and TV shows based on her works.
St-Boniface is also home to Le Cercle Molière, which is the oldest continuously active theatre company in all of Canada. And yes they still do all of their plays in French.
It never had the "flying buttresses" of some more notable cathedrals with it's side walls being rather plain and unadorned but it really was an imposing structure with wonderful woodwork carvings and that huge round stained glass window center front.
A real shame to stand and watch it burn ferociously with the roof caving in sections. You just knew the wherewithall to duplicate it's replacement in 1970's dollars would not be forthcoming.
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