whose icy snow-covered surface was like a winding strip of plain. The snow lay deep upon road and fields, for the April sun was powerless to send warmth through the gray clouds
Seems that they are having a cold and brittle winter even though it is in april
Bauer, who is from Switzerland, has lived in France, French Polynesia and Washington, and said discovering sport has been a way to discover society.
Okay so hockey as a sport is super important to these people just like a religion. But why and how did it get to this point.
They are the fans of the Montreal Canadiens.
Canadians always had that stereotype that they cant live without hockey so its interesting to see if thats truly the case.
The tear gascame 30 seconds later.
Was the tear gas planned or was it just a insane response time?
he Rocket was the preeminent presence,if not player, of his era. W
seems like the city put everything they had into this man. Like Cleveland and Lebron James
real world collide at some intersection
why does this have to happen though. People put way to much priority on whether or not heir team win or loses.
Kill Campbell!”
Why do people have to take a game so serious to honestly wish death upon someone
“If Richard’s name was Richardson you would have given a different verdict.”
I have no idea what this is supposed to mean
He perceived an ethnic dimension to the abuse he — and his French-Canadian teammates — endured. Opponents slung ethnic slurs — frog, French pea soup, dirty French bastard — their way as frequently as they tripped, slashed and hooked them. Richard felt the need to protect himself because, he claimed, the officials would not.
seems like a valid reason to retaliate to me
Not a glow, but a piercing intensity.”
a rage control problem
When Laycoe throws a bloody towel at him, he adds 10 minutes.
Did both of them get kicked out. Because here it seems like they are only blaming one party when its both their faults
Richard thinks Thompson, who once played for the Bruins himself, holds him so Laycoe can hit him.
Seems like richard lost all sense of himself in his rage and became very paranoid
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 is exactly how i picture hockey fights going down especially back then.
It’s March 13, 1955. The tension between the two rivals in the six-team NHL has been building inside the Boston Garden all night
what exactly has been building up between these to?
Campbell
did he own the article or was it someone else?
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. Laycoe's story had Thompson trying to wrestle both of them and, in order to get at the Bruins player, Richard smacked the official.
either way richard hit the official
The NHL was a provincial, parochial six-team affair in 1955, featuring barely over 100 players. 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.
Early NHL seemed liek a very toxic environment
The power of the English seigneurs in Montreal, who many angry French believed to be modern economic descendants of New France's landowners that treated their farmers as serfs before the system was abolished in 1854.
is this referencing some form of slavery ?
About two hundred Iroquois having detached themselves from their main body
Does this mean they were killed or is this a spiritual reference?
Part of the Hurons—men, women, and children—were massacred then and there; the others were made captives, and reserved for cruelties more terrible than death.
This seems very violent for a religious act
26 thousand livres
Why would they need that many?
the fish having failed, and every one having taken up his nets after a month of time lost
After almost an entire month of staying at the 3 rivers barley any fish were caught making their next journey a little scarce
was believed that he went to drown him self.
Did the church kind of antagonise this man to drown himself
Meanwhile, on the other hand, we are afraid that these are all stratagems of Satan to hinder the conversion of these Peoples; for the men of the Isle, seeing themselves [53] refused, have returned very much discontented at the Hurons as well as at the Bissiriniens, and have threatened that they would let neither of them pass down to the French.
Because all these other groups wont invite them or give them gifts they believe Satan has control over them?
To God be forever the glory of the whole; he permits the drought of the soil, to bedew all hearts with his blessings.
God will control how their crops and soil is nourished and fulfilled.
Moreover, the divine Goodness which acts in us according to the measure of our Faith, has thus far preserved these little ones in good health; so that the death of those who have passed away has been attributed to incurable and hopeless maladies contracted beforehand; and, if another has occasionally suffered from some trifling ailment, the parents, although still unbelieving, have attributed it to the neglect and irreverence they have shown toward the service of God.
So whenever something bad had happened the people would relate it to the lack of sacraments or faith in god?
On the eighth of May, having gone to la Rochelle, a woman who had just given birth to a child presented it to me for baptism. As it was well, and as [page 81] our custom is, except in case of necessity, to baptize only in our Cabin with the ceremonies of the Church, in order to cause the Sacrament to be more highly respected, I was about to say that she might bring it at her first convenience, when I felt inspired to depart from our custom; and no doubt it was a special Providence, for, a few days after, its parents brought us news of its death.
Seems to me like this is just a false statement to try and get more funding. Saying that the only reason here was death was because the didn't baptize the child.