discovering sport has been a way to discover society.

Maybe organize a hockey tournament with different ethnic or religious communities,

If they can make connections between religion and sport,

"Are the Montreal Canadiens a religion?"

a faith.

saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice

social and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day

The tear gascame 30 seconds later.

but hehad never won a scoring title and was on the brink of his first.

The Rocket's triumphswere the people's triumphs. His rare defeats were their defeats.

waslike no other hockey player.

hockey'stemple,

here is more, not just admiration, not just respect, but reverence,

enough money to afford his legal fees and a gold watch

built him up as a hero

the bomb exploded. Twenty-five feet to Campbell’s left,

The suspension seemed especially harsh because of its likely consequences. At the time, Richard led the league in points.

, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

“The Babe Ruth of hockey,”

Not only did he score often, he scored meaningful goals, when his team needed them the most,

why the two fought,

the world’s greatest hockey player to that time

hockey was more important than politics,

homemade tear gas bomb went off.

Laycoe's story

50 goals

"hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope."

Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice

How sweet to hear these names where one was talking of distant acquaintance and kinsfolk, or telling of far journeys!

Illnesses like these

unrest of her spirit.

MARCH

The children exclaimed with delight, and followed the preparations with impatient eyes.

what the good God does is always right

October made splashes of many-tinted red and gold.

"The wind is backing to the sou'east. Bad luck! Beyond question it will rain again,

s filled with dark mysterious powers:

The married couple had given their first children, Esdras and Maria,

I have felt sorry that your father's taste was for moving, and pushing on and on into the woods, and not for living on a farm in one of the old parishes."

His bold eyes travelled from one to the other.

"I tell you that we shall have a lean year," asserted one old fellow, "the frost got in before the last snows fell."

but God be blessed that the men were saved.

blessed death."

nd on the light that he shall give us for that purpose.

I have promised him that I would yield him better fruits than in the past."

he placed his confidence in God.

for, the more thou sufferest, the more thy God will reward thee. "

We redoubled our devotions, in which were our strongest [42] hopes, since our help could only come from Heaven

She asked us for Baptism from the day of her arrival;

Faith has surpassed our hopes

But, no doubt, the Providence of God had led him to this death in a special manner;

He goes through the cabins, and proceeds to fill them with his zeal,—the Infidels themselves presenting their children in crowds, in order to make Christians of them.

Christianity has appeared in them with greatest luster.

and that their goods will be plundered if they return.

an old man,—Head servant at the warehouse,—suspected of theft and threatened with Justice, proved to be lost; it was believed that he went to drown him self.

On palm Sunday,

Ash Wednesday

from the boiling water which these barbarians had poured over him in mockery of Holy Baptism.

For you see a man, bound naked to a post, who, having this collar on his neck, cannot tell what posture to take. For, if he lean forward, those above his shoulders weigh the more on him; if he lean back, those on his stomach make him suffer the same torment; if he keep erect, without leaning to one side or other, the burning ratchets, applied equally on both sides, give him a trouble torture.

For indeed we are likely to undergo the same tortures and afflictions (Unless God avert them) which our Fathers among the Hurons have undergone, as will be evident to Your Paternity from their own letters.

the blessed deaths

They make such resistance as they can, but it avails little; the enemy soon master the village, and set it on fire, massacring the helpless inhabitants—men, women, and children alike. Daniel soon sees that all is lost; and he hastens through the cabins, baptizing all whom he can reach, that at least their souls may be saved.

For this is the will of God, your sanctification; that every one of you should know how to preserve his body as a _Precious vessel in sanctification and in honor, and not give way to the passion of his lusts, like the Gentiles that know not God.

o be a burden to them, on account of the excesses and superfluous expenses connected with them.

Pentecost;

draw the bodies from the tombs in the presence of the relatives, who [page 281] renew their tears and feel afresh the grief they had on the day of the funeral. I was present at the spectacle, and willingly invited to it all our servants; for I do not think one could see in the world a more vivid picture or more perfect representation of what man is. It is true that in France our Cemeteries preach powerfully, and that all those bones piled up one upon another without discrimination,-those of the poor [197] with those of the rich,

This fine ceremony took place this Winter in the person of one of our little Christians, who had been named Joseph at baptism. I learned it on this occasion from the lips of the child's father himself.

prudence and moderation of speech; I would not dare to say they always use this self-restraint,

plurality of votes,

Captains of those Villages who intend to come together, and are now at variance with the rest of the Country, will be able between now and Spring to reunite, and thus we can more readily take such action as we shall judge most proper for the glory of God,

Hamlet

Some are found who refuse these honors,—sometimes because they have not aptitude in speaking, or sufficient discretion or patience, sometimes because they like a quiet life; for these positions are servitudes more than anything else. A Captain must always make it a point to be, as it were, in the field; if a Council is held five or six leagues away for the affairs of the Country, Winter or Summer, whatever the weather, he must go. If there is an Assembly in the Village,

They also punish Sorcerers severely, that is, those who use poisoning, and cause death by charms; [155] and this punishment is authorized by the consent of the whole Country, so that whoever takes them in the act has full right to cleave their skulls and rid the world of them, without fear of being called to account, or obliged to give any satisfaction for it.

The councils, too, held almost every day in the Villages, and on almost all matters, improve their capacity for talking; and, although it is the old men who have control there, and upon whose judgment depend the decisions made, yet every one who wishes may be present, and has the right to express his opinion.

or from a little idol in the form of a doll,

they prescribe for one a dog feast; for another, that a game of crosse or dish should be played; for another, sleep on such and such a skin, and other stupid and diabolical extravagances; another still, an emetic, to make the charm, if there be any, come forth,—

command the rain and winds; others, to [page 193] predict future events; others, to find things that are [134] lost; and, lastly, others to restore health to the sick, and that with remedies that have no relation to the sicknesses.

little Demon as large as the fist, which they say is in the body of the sick man, especially in the part which pains him.

You see them come out with Hatchets, Kettles, Porcelain, and like presents hung around their necks, after their fashion. When they have found what they sought, they thank him who has given it to them

But let us pass on

Sky. If they fail in this ceremony, they look upon all the disastrous changes of the weather, and all the untoward accidents which happen to them afterwards, as so many results of its anger.

different adventures.

At the feast of the Dead, which takes place about every twelve years, the souls quit the cemeteries,

What would you say to that? All that we do is to bear witness to them that we feel compassion for their so gross ignorance; we take thence occasion, when we judge them capable of appreciating it, for explaining some of our Mysteries, and of showing them how fully they conform to reason. They listen very willingly, and are well satisfied therewith.

Others attribute this fall to another cause, which seems to have some relation to the case of Adam, but falsehood makes up the greater part of it.

They are not acquainted with B. F. L. M. P. X. Z; and I. E. V. are never consonants to them.

shall I dare to say to a heart so generous, and that mocks at all that of which I have already spoken, that truly, even though we have hardly more of those necessities than the Savages have, still, I know not how, the divine Goodness renders every difficult thing easy; and all and every one of us find everything almost as comfortable [69] as life is in France

Scholar,

God employs all means to give an entrance to those who bear the Gospel.

We exposed also the Blessed Sacrament on the occasion of its Feast, which happened at that time.

which is in conformity with our Institute

little [7] boy, who had always been sick and much emaciated before Baptism, had been very well since then.