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  1. Apr 2019
    1. "When we learned about the 100th anniversary, we thought it was a good time to talk about the relationship between sport and religion, especially between the Habs and the religious context in Montreal and in Quebec," Bauer said.

      sports cannot be someone's faith

    1. Smoke from a tear-gas canister haddriven thousands of hockey fans into the streets, sparking afour-hour rampage that yielded the requisite fires, shatteredwindows, looted stores, overturned cars and 137 arrest

      was the tear gas from police officers trying to calm the riot or from people trying to participate in the riot.

    1. Forty-five, maybe 60 seconds later — at 9:11 p.m. — the bomb exploded. Twenty-five feet to Campbell’s left, a canister of tear gas detonated by Latreille’s group from the auto repair shop. The acrid smoke in the building gnawed the throats and scorched the eyes of those nearby. Suddenly, fear gripped the crowd. What next?

      It must have been so scary for the fans to have to go through this when they just wanted to go to a hockey game

    2. 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.

      This seems like a typical hockey fight to me how did it turn into such a blood bath

    3. The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL

      why were these two rivals when there were only 6 teams in the league. Shouldn't they all have been rivals to each other then

    1. Richard's story had linesman Cliff Thompson holding him back, arms pinned, while Laycoe was allowed to smack away. Rocket said he warned the linesman three times to let him go before he finally clocked the official. 

      was the fight staged and did the players know about it before the game?

    1. "It is true enough that I am not rich; but I have two lots of my own, paid for out and out, and you know the soil is good.

      I do no think that she should have to be explaining the money she has

    2. But ere long there sweeps from out the cold north a mighty wind like a final sentence of death, the cruel ending to a reprieve, and soon the poor leaves, brown, red and golden, shaken too unkindly, strow the ground; the snow covers them, and the white expanse has only for adornment the sombre green of trees that alter not their garb-triumphing now, as do those women inspired with bitter wisdom who barter their right to beauty for life everlasting.

      Very descriptive!

    3. The forests of Quebec are rich in wild berries; cranberries, Indian pears, black currants, sarsaparilla spring up freely in the wake of the great fires, but the blueberry, the bilberry or whortleberry of France, is of all the most abundant and delicious. The gathering of them, from July to September, is an industry for many families who spend the whole day in the woods; strings of children down to the tiniest go swinging their tin pails, empty in the morning, full and heavy by evening. Others only gather the blueberries for their own use, either to make jam or the famous pies national to French Canada.

      It must be a fun activity for families to be able to go and pick fresh fruits for their home and to eat

    4. AFTER a few chilly days, June suddenly brought veritable spring weather. A blazing sun warmed field and forest, the lingering patches of snow vanished even in the deep shade of the woods;

      This is late for the weather to finally start to be getting warm

    5. His excuses for so late a call were made without touch of awkwardness. "We are camped at the end of the portage above the rapids. The tent had to be pitched and things put in order to make the Belgians comfortable for the night. When I set out I knew it was hardly the hour for a call and that the paths through the woods must be pretty bad. But I started all the same, and when I saw your light...

      is this believable?

    6. Some moved over in his direction; others, indifferent, met his announcement with a laugh. The remark was heard in an envious undertone:—"And who will be foreman at three dollars a day? Perhaps good old Laliberte ...

      Seems like they are making a joke out of the situation an being like oh no one would do that work for that amount of money

    7. "The lake is solid yet," said Cleophas Pesant, "but the rivers are no longer safe. The ice went this week beside the sand-bank opposite the island, where there have been warm spring-holes all winter." Others began to discuss the chances of the crops, before the ground was even showing

      It already seems like there is going to be a lot of dialogue in this. Books with a lot of dialogue are harder to annotate.

  2. Mar 2019
    1. The astonishing thing is that all their words are universally conjugated, for example, Assé, it is fresh, assé, chen, it was fresh; gaon, old, agaon, he is old, agaonc, he was old, agaonha, he is growing old; and so [81] with the rest.

      I think it is interesting learning about other languages vocab and rules because I do not even know if English has any conjugating rules

    2. Another benefit that results from this practice—which is in conformity with our Institute—is, that even the adults become instructed by this means; [15] for the desire of the fathers and mothers that their children should be praised and rewarded leads them to be instructed themselves, in order to teach their children; particularly many older girls take pleasure in imitating the younger ones

      did they feel they were also being rewarded when their children were?

    3. On Sundays, we assemble all these young people twice in our Cabin, which serves as a Chapel. In the morning we get them to assist at Mass, even [page 19] to the offertory, before which we solemnly bless the holy water; then I make them say all together, after me, the Pater, the Ave, and other prayers they know.

      I find it interesting they use a cabin as a chapel instead of maybe building a chapel for them to use

    4. They seek Baptism almost entirely as an aid to health.

      I think that it is very interesting that they believe that baptizing is a way to bring good health. I am a nursing major so it is interesting to learn about what people before modern medicine would consider good for your health

    5. Of this. number God has called ten to Heaven,

      Why do they say they know how many people have been sent to heaven when that is impossible to know?

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    1. It thus seems to be an established fact that most of the settlers had received an education and spoke French before immigrating to New France.

      where did most of these settlers come from?

    2. they are not in the least interested in learning our languages,

      this makes sense because in other readings I have learned about involving assimilation the group being assimilated has not wanted to be.

    3. In New France, the question of language did not really arise

      Why would this be questioned when France was the one who ruled New France and French was their language.