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

"[Bauer] has really touched something deep in Quebec society, something that is so obvious nobody has taken the time to mention it," he said. "It really strikes something, and it's really fun too. Serious, but with some humour."

especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.

The melee, which forced the game to be suspended, ushered in arevolution

The Detroit Red Wings would take a 4-1 lead over theRocketless Canadiens, driving a combustible crowd closer to theedge.

This was the site of the Forum, hockey'stemple, which now lives only in the soft-focus haze of fondmemor

“Because I always try so hard to win and had my troubles in Boston, I was suspended. At playoff time, it hurts not to be in the game with the boys.

The men overwhelmed law and order. They pulled down road signs

Richard remained silent during the meeting conducted in English, his second language.

Richard stood 5’10, 180 pounds, with the fists of a former boxer,

He married his teenage love, Lucille, in 1942, when he was 20 and she was 17

but nothing like this, nothing as determined and wild.

the NHL began to crack down on all-out brawls (especially carrying your stick into one),

Ted Lindsay had been dispatched for four games after punching a Toronto fan

Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand, as paleontologist Steven Jay Gould once observed of 1950s New York baseball.

how violent the National Hockey League was in those days.

"Then in the month of July our well must needs dry up; the cows had not a drop of water to slake their thirst and they almost stopped giving milk

They should have left; perhaps in going through

He began in quiet tones that he might not drown the other slender voice; but soon emotion carried him away and he sang with all his might, his gaze dreamy and remote.

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

Four hundred miles away, at the far headwaters of the rivers, those Indians who have held aloof from missionaries and traders are squatting round a fire of dry cypress before their lodges, and the world they see about them, as in the earliest days, is filled with dark mysterious powers:

The five men worked on unceasingly, while from day to day the clearing extended its borders by a little; deep wounds in the uncovered soil showed the richness of it.

"Holy Mary, mother of God, pray for us now and at the hour of our death..."

This set them all talking once again of the opening season, and of the work soon to be commenced. The month of May came in with alternate warm rains and fine sunny days which gradually conquered the accumulated ice and snow of the long winter

"The soil is good but one must battle for it with the forest;

There was nothing to look at; in the settlements new houses and barns might go up from year to year, or be deserted and tumble into ruin; but the life of the woods is so unhurried that one must needs have more than the patience of a human being to await and mark its advance.

Maria smiled to think how like he was to her father;

The smiles were bold enough as they spoke of her, this inaccessible beauty

Everyone drew his pipe from his pocket, and the pig's bladder filled with tobacco leaves cut by hand,

At all events, these hardships cannot but seem all the more acceptable to us

God has not chosen to warn us, by those crosses and that blood, that he will accord us the same favor with which he has chosen to recompense the merits of this good Father,—to die for his name, and to shed our blood for the establishment of his glory.

except the innocence of those who were in torture, most of whom were Christians.

All this band of Christians fell, mostly alive, into the hands of the enemy; and with them, our two Fathers, the Pastors of that Church. They were [39] not killed on the spot; God was reserving them for much nobler crowns, of which we will speak hereafter.

I would never have believed that I could see, after fifty years of labor, the tenth part of the piety, the virtue, and [25] the holiness of which I have everywhere been witness in the visits that I have made to these Churches, which have been arising in the midst of Infidelity

This same year, the wall at Sillery was begun with the Community's funds,—that is to say, the 19,000 livres appropriated by the king for the affairs of the country.

if ever w e have needed these, we need them most at this time, when we are involved in manifest' peril of our safety

On March 16, 1649, a thousand Iroquois, well armed—" mostly with firearms, which they obtain from the Dutch, their allies "—make a sudden attack, at daybreak, on the village Of St. Ignace (not more than ten miles southeast of Ste. Marie itself). This place, although well fortified, is taken " almost without a blow, " the people being asleep; and nearly all of them are slain or captured.

" The blessings of Heaven were Rowing down in abundance upon these peoples,"

However, it is only the rich who lose nothing, or very little, in this feast. The middle classes and the poor bring and leave there [page 303] whatever they have most valuable, and suffer much, in order not to appear less liberal than the others in this celebration. Every one makes it a point of honor.

Is not this to overthrow the belief of all that School, who, if I am not mistaken, hold that nothing so much weakens the sight as excessive fasting? However that may be, there is considerable ground for the belief that our madman had not yet fasted enough, for his sight deceived him very thoroughly, and did not help increase his reputation as a Prophet. The troop had not set out when he declared it was two leagues from the Village.

When the company is assembled, they sometimes begin to sing before [126] eating; sometimes, to have more courage, they eat first

But the most magnificent of these feasts are those they call Atouronta ochien, that is, singing feasts. These feasts will often last twenty-four entire hours; sometimes there are thirty or forty kettles, and as many as thirty Deer will be eaten

In the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Ghost. Would you judge it fitting, while waiting a better expression, to substitute instead, In the name of our Father, and of his Son, and of their holy Ghost?

However, they said that, in view of a life of eternal happiness or of eternal misery, nothing [43] ought to seem difficult

To this I answered, " As for me, I shall never take down nor hide the Cross [30] where died he who is the cause of all our blessing

so that he had to confess that he could not succeed, and he declared that the crops would not ripen; but unfortunately, or rather fortunately for us, he said that he was hindered from making it rain by a Cross which is before our door, and that the house of the French was a house of demons, or of ill-disposed people who had come into their Country in order to make them die