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Newsletter Volume 17, Number 1, Spring 2017
We are pleased to announce the launch of our new newsletter. Enjoy!
Grand Séminaire at the heart of Montreal's history
Just like Downton Abbey, Montreal’s Grand Séminaire has its splendid spaces and its humble corners under the stairs. With its twin fieldstone towers, completed in 1694, the sprawling property…
Rimouski archives center is the biggest acquisition of its history
Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ) Rimouski has just received a major acquisition, the Séminaire Saint-Germain de Rimouski fonds, 350 boxes of documents and more…
Montreal focuses on religious tourism
It is called "the city with 100 bell towers". And for good reason, Montreal attracts more and more visitors inside the walls of its places of worship. In view of this interest, the metropolis…
How to protect churches in the region?
In a report released on February 22, journalist Gilles Munger (Radio-Canada) painted a portrait of the situation in the Saguenay-Lac-Saint-Jean region, at the crossroads to save the abandoned churches.…
Québec Issime presents a Casavant organ
Producer Robert Doré has just acquired the Casavant organ from the Christ-Roi church. He will move it to his production center in the Arvida sector in Saguenay. Read the article and see the video…
The 1001 secrets of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours' chapel
You have missed the broadcasting of the show "Le 15-18" hosted by Annie Desrochers on Radio-Canada, with the historian Jean-François Nadeau? Here we relay for you the portion which carried…