"Sport is part of culture and a good way to learn about another country… To discover why people are so passionate about it, it's like, 'Tell me what your sport is and I'll tell you who you are,' " he said.

Bauer, who is from Switzerland, has lived in France, French Polynesia and Washington, and said discovering sport has been a way to discover society.

Don Cherry,

"It's a divine inspiration,

The Richard Riot is generally considered the firstexplosion of French-Canadian nationalism, the beginning of asocial and political dynamic that shapes Canada to this day

Montreal was aghast.

Sportsriots have become commonplace, but the one in '55 was like noother because one of its central figures, Maurice Richard, waslike no other hockey player.

first in French, then repeated himself in English,

The man slapped him

André Robinson, emboldened by gin,

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

In an era when the game was more violent than today’s version, when players did not wear helmets or mouth guards

For five minutes, the tempest rages. The crowd, on its feet, cannot believe the madness before them. They’ve seen fights over the Garden’s past three decades in the days when players swung their sticks and fists more liberally, but nothing like this, nothing as determined and wild.

Then Richard snatches a stick from the ice and swings it wildly at Laycoe. He cuts him below the eye.

Incensed, Richard swings his stick with two-fisted fury at Laycoe. He hits him with such force across the shoulders that his stick splinters. Laycoe sheds his gloves and rushes at Richard, who drops his gloves. The two thrash at one another with their fists.

He would reluctantly take his punishment.

After the riot, the NHL began to crack down on all-out brawls (especially carrying your stick into one), though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule. 

he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.

The president really worked for the six owners, five of whom wanted the book thrown at Richard for the Boston incident. 

A violent end of an era for the NHL and Quebec

Surprenant would come back from the States for the third time and would bear her away to the unknown delights of the city

Now something catches me in the back, and I am not hungry."

Country folk do not die for love, nor spend the rest of their days nursing a wound. They are too near to nature, and know too well the stern laws that rule their lives.

NEW YEAR'S DAY

Mosquitos swarmed and circled in the fervent afternoon heat.

Seizing the bucket he drank half its contents and poured the rest over his head and neck; still dripping, he threw himself afresh upon the vanquished stump and began to roll it toward a pile as one carries off a prize.

The window was open and through it came the distant roaring of the falls. The first mosquitos, of the spring, attracted by the light, entered likewise and the slender music of their wings filled the house. Tit'Bé went and closed the window, then fell on his knees again beside the others.

Mother Chapdelaine took up her questioning:—"And so you sold the farm when your father died?"

He smoked and talked with the men now by virtue of his fourteen years, his broad shoulders and his knowledge of husbandry. Eight years ago he had begun to care for the stock, and to replenish the store of wood for the house with the aid of his little sled.

After a couple of miles the road climbed a steep hill and entered the unbroken woods. The houses standing at intervals in the flat country all the way from the village came abruptly to an end, and there was no longer anything for the eye to rest upon but a wilderness of bare trunks rising out of the universal whiteness. Even the incessant dark green of balsam, spruce and gray pine was rare; the few young and living trees were lost among the endless dead, either lying on the ground and buried in snow, or still erect but stripped and blackened.

The snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun was powerless to send warmth through the gray clouds

Estienne Annaotaha,

Christians were increasing in number

More than 300 Sturgeon

Iroquois Enemies

In conclusion, experience taught us long ago that the [109] blessings which have come to us from the Cross of Jesus Christ are much more effectively received and communicated by crosses and sufferings than by prosperity.

He has died in the cause of God

Fathers Jean de Brebceuf and Gabriel L'Alleman

The savages told us further, that, although Father de Brebceuf was overwhelmed under the weight of these blows, he did not cease continually to speak of God, and to encourage all the new Christians who were captives like himself to suffer well, that they might die well, in order to go in company with him to Paradise.

The souls of those who died in war form a band by themselves; the others fear them,

NE is astonished to see so much blindness in regard to the things of Heaven, in a People who do not lack judgment and knowledge in reference to those of earth.

I say it without exaggeration, the five and six months of Winter are spent in almost continual discomforts

We have had this year two alarms

how old France is burning with ardent desires for the New;

He allowed himself, at last, to be so carried away, and ate so heartily and sang [page 199] with so much vehemence that he left the feast with his brain in a sling.

On the way by which the Hurons go to Kébec

there are more than three hundred thousand of the Huron tongue alone

As regards the authority of commanding, here is what I have observed. All the affairs of the Huron are included under two heads: The first are, as it were, affairs of State,—whatever may concern either citizens [page 229] or Strangers, the public or the individuals of the Village; as, for example, feasts, dances, games, Crosse matches, and funeral ceremonies. The second are affairs of war

O NOT CLAIM here to put our Savages on a level with the Chinese, Japanese, and other Nations perfectly civilized; but only to put them above the condition of beasts

since their lewdness and licentiousness hinder them from finding God, it is very easy for the Devil to thrust himself in and to offer them his services in their pressing necessities, causing them to pay him a homage that is not due him, and having intercourse with certain more subtle minds, who extend his influence among these poor people.