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  1. Dec 2022
    1. If they can make connections between religion and sport, it helps get people involved; there will be a lot of diversity."

      This is an interesting viewpoint

    2. thers include Denis Müller from the University of Lausanne in Switzerland and the University of Winnipeg's Tom Faulkner, author of More Than a Game, Less Than a God: Canadian Hockey.

      Other people are also feeling the same way about the sport of hockey

    1. If that was the start of the Quiet Revolution,it wasn't very quiet."

      I did not realize that this was considered the start of the quiet revolution

    2. Three days later Campbell suspendedRichard for the Canadiens' three remaining regular-season gamesand the entire playoffs.

      I mean was causing a lot of chaos, its somewhat justified

    3. moke 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 arrests.

      I did not realize it was that crazy

    1. Good to his word, though, Richard returned the next season to lead the Habs to the Stanley Cup championship, the first of five consecutive championships they would win before Richard retired in 1960 — a convincing vindication.

      Impressive

    2. French papers blamed Campbell for provoking the violence. Montreal Mayor Jean Drapeau also placed responsibility on Campbell. “He should have known that his presence at the game would have spurred some sort of protest or reaction,” Drapeau told the Ottawa Citizen.

      Campbell should have listened to everyone

    3. Richard had scored more goals, 422, than anyone in the history of the NHL — 98 more than the next guy on the list.

      I wonder if anyone has beat this statistic now

    4. His stick blade clips the Rocket above the left ear and opens a gash. The blood stains his scalp.

      I feel like this should not have been allowed

    1. ichard'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. 

      I wonder if there are any regulations new regulations about fighting in hockey now. This does not feel safe

    2. Many of them hated each other with the type of passion only love can understand,

      Interesting way of describing their hatred for each other

    1. That is not all. As these poor People have neither hunting, nor fishing, nor grain, they scatter hither and thither in quest of acorns and roots. Our Fathers, unable to forsake them, accompany them when they constitute any considerable body,—preferring to perish with hunger rather than deny them the bread of the Gospel. [107] In this service, acorns [page 225] and exceedingly bitter roots seem to them a dish more delicious than the daintiest morsels of Europe. Those who have never tasted God without any creature comforts know not how sweet he is, taken all alone, so to speak. Non ex solo pane vivit homo.

      I am surprised religion remained strong even though they felt like nothing was helping them

    2. Father Jean de Brebeuf had had the skin which covered his skull torn away; they had cut off his feet and torn the flesh from his thighs, even to the bone, and had split, with the blow of a hatchet, one of his jaws in two

      This is a lot

    3. " At 3 rivers, no bonfire was made on St. John's day,—the governor claiming that the warehouse ought to make it, and the warehouse referring it to the governor." The usual fisheries, especially that [page 10] of salmon, are this year almost a failure, except that of sturgeon, of which unusual numbers are caught.

      Are the bonfires a sign of a successful fishing day?

    1. Here is a very remarkable proof of it: A very renowned Sorcerer of this Country threatens us this year with a great famine.

      are they refering to God as a sorcerer?

    2. All were crying for help, and imploring, according to their custom, the help of the Sorcerers

      I thought they were religious people. Interesting they were calling upon sorcerers

    3. There are here a number of fine little girls, who, if they were well brought up, would not yield in any respect to our young French girls

      I find this interesting. If they are taught the same why would they not compare? Is he saying the teaching here is the same?

    4. God forms the body of. this child; who out of one and the same material [9] forms the heart, the liver, the lungs,—in short, an infinite variety of members, all necessary, all well-proportioned, and joined one to another? Not the father, for these wonders take place in his absence, and sometimes after his death.

      This is an interesting thought

    5. Reverend Father General cherishes this Mission as the apple of his eye

      What exactly is his mission? What does he want to change and accomplish?