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.

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Wearing his No. 9 home jersey, he walks out onto the red carpet spread over the ice.

Supporters sent him more than 50 letters, enough money to afford his legal fees and a gold watch.

able to help

“For 15 blocks they left in their path a swath of destruction,” Katz wrote in Maclean’s. “It looked like the aftermath of a wartime blitz in London.”

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Maurice Richard­-le Rocket

25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule. 

137 arrests

Richard, who in 1945 became the first to score 50 goals in a season (in 50 games, no less)

How Francophone players in the NHL, almost exclusively the property of the Montreal Canadiens, believed they were more harshly treated by league president Clarence Campbell — especially Richard — when it came time to dish out suspensions and fines. How Richard himself, the Rocket, was so much a part of Quebec society that he transcended even organized religion. Red Storey, a former referee and long-time hockey commentator, once said of him that, in Quebec, "hockey was bigger than the Church, and Rocket Richard was bigger than the Pope." Roch Carrier perhaps explained it best in his famous book The Hockey Sweater.

Sticks were high, fists flew, blood often smeared the ice, and the owners thought this was all manly and a great way to sell tickets.

March 17, 1955

Maurice Richard

Two hours after daylight the doctor and the cure of St. Henri appeared together.

"Eutrope has brought you a cure, Laura."

On the third day she gave up thinking about the cares of the house and began to bemoan herself.

March dragged through its melancholy days; cold winds drove the gray clouds back and forth across the sky, and swept the snow hither and thither; one must needs consult the calendar of the Roberval grain merchant to get an inkling that spring was drawing near.

but no need of that if you were my wife. I earn enough for both of us, and we should have every comfort: good clothes to wear, a pretty flat in a brick house with gas and hot water, and all sorts of contrivances you never heard of to save you labour and worry every moment of the day.

revolt against the prospect of lifelong slaver

The men lit their pipes; they chatted about the weather, the condition of the roads, the country news; but the conversation lagged, as though all were looking for it to take some unusual turn. Their glances sought Lorenzo and the three Frenchmen, expecting strange and marvellous tales of distant lands and unfamiliar manners from an assembly so far out of the common. The Frenchmen, only a few months in the country, apparently felt a like curiosity, for they listened, and spoke but little.

"The duty of a girl like you—good-looking, healthy, active withal and a clever housewife—is in the first place to help her old parents, and in good time to marry and bring up a Christian family of her own. You have no call to the religious life? No. Then you must give up torturing yourself in this fashion, because it is a sacrilegious thing and unseemly, seeing that the young man was nothing whatever to you. The good God knows what is best for us; we should neither rebel nor complain ..."

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. Thus it is perhaps, that they are sparing of high-sounding words; choosing to say "liking" rather than "loving" ... "ennui" rather than "grief," that so the joys and sorrows of the heart may bear a fit proportion to those more anxious concerns of life which have to do with their daily toil, the yield of their lands, provision for the future.

Maria alone, as if the dear secret of her heart were open to them. But she spoke not, nor moved, her eyes fixed upon the frosted panes of the little window, impenetrable as the wall.

NEW YEAR'S DAY, and not a single caller!

French-Canadian peasant

Chapdelaines about the holidays, and now these were drawing near.

And are there many Canadians where you are living? Do the people speak French?"

Where the fire had passed, on rocky slopes, wherever the woods were thin and the sun could penetrate, the ground had been clad in almost unbroken pink by the laurel's myriad tufts of bloom; at first the reddening blueberries contended with them in glowing colour, but under the constant sun these slowly turned to pale blue, to royal blue, to deepest purple, and when July brought the feast of Ste. Anne the bushes laden with fruit were broad patches of violet amid the rosy masses now beginning to fade.

inert foe

her spirit was possessed with something of a mystic's rapture.

Edwige Legare and Esdras

Yes, I sold everything. I was never a very good hand at farming, you know. Working in the shanties, trapping, making a little money from time to time as a guide or in trade with the Indians, that is the life for me; but to scratch away at the same fields from one year's end to another, and stay there forever, I would not have been able to stick to that all my life; I would have felt like a cow tethered to a stake."

he ventured an appraising glance

Mother Chapdelaine's face was bright with interest; doubly pleased to receive a visitor and at the chance of talking about old times.

"It is raining!" he exclaimed. His hosts made toward the door to see for themselves; the rain had in truth begun, a spring rain with great drops that fell heavily, under which the snow was already softening and melting

Eutrope Gagnon, but she quickly turned away, for she always surprised his humbly worshipping eyes.

Quebec

"You cannot shoot devils with a gun," objected his mother. "But when you feel the temptation coming, seize your rosary and say your prayers."

In one of these compartments the father and mother had their bed; Maria and Alma Rose in the other. A steep stairway ascended from a corner to the loft where the boys slept in the summer-time; with the coming of winter they moved their bed down and enjoyed the warmth of the stove with the rest of the family.

Tit'Bé

They will be glad to see you again, Maria," said her father. "They have been lonesome for you, every one of them.

The alders formed a thick and unbroken hedge along the river Peribonka; but the leafless stems did not shut away the steeply sloping bank, the levels of the frozen river, the dark hem of the woods crowding to the farther edge-leaving between the solitude of the great trees, thick-set and erect, and the bare desolateness of the ice only room for a few narrow fields, still for the most part uncouth with stumps, so narrow indeed that they seemed to be constrained in the grasp of an unkindly land.

I am here with some Belgians who are going to buy furs from the Indians;

pig's bladder filled with tobacco leaves

Samuel Chapdelaine and Maria

St. Prime with her mother's people. They are Bouchards, related to Wilfrid Bouchard of St. Gedeon

Mr. Larouche

April sun was powerless to send warmth through the gray clouds, and the heavy spring rains were yet to come. This chill and universal white, the humbleness of the wooden church and the wooden houses scattered along the road, the gloomy forest edging so close that it seemed to threaten, these all spoke of a harsh existence in a stern land. But as the men and boys passed through the doorway and gathered in knots on the broad steps, their cheery salutations, the chaff flung from group to group, the continual interchange of talk, merry or sober, at once disclosed the unquenchable joyousness of a people ever filled with laughter and good humour.

roadside on the high bank of the Peribonka

church at Peribonka

That Island of Sainte Marie abounds in fish; and the lands there, according to the report made to us about them, are good for cultivation. We will gladly put our hands to the plough, in order to live there by the sweat of our brows and by our own labor, if provisions fail us otherwise,—for hitherto it was the Huron villages which furnished us their [94] Indian corn

What increases the public misery is, that famine has been prevalent this year in all these regions, more than it had been seen in fifty years,

In the year 1637, when the cry arose throughout the country, " Murder them ! " " Massacre them ! "—as if we had been the authors of the contagious diseases which ravaged everywhere,

They had broiled their tongues, repeatedly putting into their mouths flaming brands, and burning pieces of bark,—[52] not willing that they should invoke, in dying, him for whom they were suffering, and who could never die in their hearts

When they were fastened to the post where they suffered these torments,

As soon as they were taken captive, they were stripped naked, and [46] some of their nails were torn out; and the welcome which they received upon entering the village of St. Ignace was a hailstorm of blows with sticks upon their shoulders, their loins, their legs, their breasts, their bellies, and their faces,—there being no part of their bodies which did not then endure its torment.

God and for the salvation of their neighbor, they exposed themselves to death, and to a cruel death, if ever there was one in the world,—for they could easily and without sin have put their lives in safety, if they had not been filled with love for God rather than for themselves.

ccordingly, never was their faith, or the love which they had for their good Fathers and Pastors, more lively.

casting into the midst of the flames the old men, the sick, the children who had not been able to escape

blessings of Heaven were flowing down in abundance upon these peoples

A young girl of fifteen years, among the most accomplished in the country, still a Catechumen, had been taken captive toward the end of last year's disinter; the enemies, however, had spared her life, and she remained with them in her captivity

little child of six years was extremely [26] sick in the Mission of saint Michel

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

assembled a general Council, in order to confer upon means of strengthening the Faith among them

good Father appeared after his death to one of ours

easiest and the richest prey

the enemy

we gave them, at the start, a cask of Eels, and a barrel of Indian corn; also 6 Blankets, 2 pairs of snowshoes, etc. For their Cabin

The great stress of Easter Day, and the great crowd, ceased after high Mass. There were 4 masses.

Holy week

On palm Sunday

Ash Wednesday

purification

thou shalt suffer, the more will thy God reward thee.

Savages and the new Christians

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

a reinforcement arrives, consisting of four additional missionaries

appropriated 19,000 livres for the affairs of the country

seed and for food

The bones of these victims are carried to Quebec

French are continually harassed by Iroquois raids

The Head of the Council is the Captain who calls it. Matters are decided by a plurality of votes,

Even in wars, where confusion often reigns, they do not fail to keep some order. They never undertake them without reason;

Savages on a level with the Chinese, Japanese, and other Nations perfectly civilized

I would have liked several Christians to be present at this sight; I doubt not they would have been [page 201] ashamed of themselves, seeing how like these Peoples they act in their carnival follies; these dress and disguise themselves, not in truth so richly, but almost as ridiculously as they do elsewhere.

Among all these fooleries, I dare not speak of the infamies and uncleanness which the Devil makes to slip into them, causing them to see in a dream that they can only be healed by wallowing in all sorts of filth.

They ascribe the origin of all these mysteries to a certain Giant of more than human size

If they fail in this ceremony, they look upon all the disastrous changes of the weather, and all the untoward accidents which happen to them afterwards, as so many results of its anger.

the souls of thieves, they are quite welcome

under Heaven a different land from their own

origin from Heaven

A woman, whose mother had died a short time before, almost lost her desire to be baptized because the command, Thou shalt honor thy Father and thy Mother, had been inadvertently quoted to her.

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? Certainly it seems that the three Persons of the most holy Trinity would be sufficiently expressed in this way, the third being in truth the holy Spirit of the first and of the second; the second being Son of the first; and the first, our Father, in the terms of the Apostle

This Nation is very timid, they take no precautions against surprise, they are not careful to prepare arms or to inclose their villages with palisades; their usual recourse, especially when the enemy is powerful, is flight. Amid these alarms, which affect the whole Country, I leave you to imagine if we have any grounds for a feeling of safety.

we are to expect death every hour, and to be prepared for it, this is particularly the case here. For not to mention that your Cabin

meeting his relatives that, not daring to enter the Cabin, he became desperate, and hanged himself to a tree.

and how he saves the good

present at all our Assemblies, listening to our instructions; he was the first to make the sign of the Cross

they did so well that on the same day God gave them rain, and in the end a plentiful harvest, as well as a profound admiration for the divine Power.

painted anew in its first colors

As to death, I believe that all of us would have been very glad to submit to it for the defense of the Cross.

Heaven threatens them

Generally speaking they praise an approve the Christian Religion, and blame their wicked customs; but when will they leave them off entirely?

The eagerness they show to learn the duties of a Christian keeps us from doubting it

As the women and children caused us much trouble

The evil is, they are so attached to their old customs that, knowing the beauty of truth

bringing us children to baptize

They seek Baptism almost entirely as an aid to health.

HAPPY DEATH OF SOME HURONS