In Bauer's class, students will compare and contrast the Montreal Canadiens and other religions.

Bauer was organizing the event, titled La Religion du Canadien or The Habs Religion.

"I wanted to invite Don Cherry, too.

he and one of his students decided the university should offer the opportunity to study whether the Canadiens are, in fact, a faith.

In Prof. Olivier Bauer's class at the Université de Montréal, worshippers can argue that their team is their religion.

The arena is their temple, the players are their saviours, and those who worship them pray that the sacrifices made on the ice — of blood, sweat and tears — will lead them to glory.

Quebec's biggest passions is a religion

Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface.

raised to mythical status

Richard's glare could be seen from the top row of the Forum--andin taverns for hundreds of miles around,

they honor the past in a special ceremony.

zeitgeist

Laycoe was there, with cuts on his face and a patch above his left eye. So was Thompson, his shiner evidence against Richard.

While a linesman held onto Geoffrion, Murphy clipped Geoffrion in the scalp with his stick, cutting him.

The inequity seemed to play out in calls against the French-Canadians or no-calls against opponents

his teammates managed to pull him away before he could harm McLean

Rocket did not reserve his wrath only for other players; he struck out at anyone who crossed him, including officials

bleu-blanc-et-rouge

With blood still spilling down his cheek

Le Rocket accelerated quickly on his skates and the left-handed right wing had a backhand as sharp as his forehand, but at times, it seemed he could determine the fate of a game simply by his will.

150th birthday in 2017.

Unbeaten, unbowed, unrepentant — still forever proud.

Le Tour de Chapeau

The rest will always be disputed.

"Maybe it is not good for you to drink so much. Try to bear the thirst for a little."

Boldly enough he asked Maria to walk with him,

NEW YEAR'S DAY,

an impulse of shyness caused Maria to turn away and hide her rosary under the coverlet as she continued to pray.

their elders scattered through the woods in search of the larger patches, where one might sit on one's heels and fill a pail in an hour.

June

On the door-step his keen eyes sought in Maria's for something that he might carry into the depth of the green woods whither he was bent; but they found no message.

The distant and continuous thunder was the voice of wild waters, silenced all winter by the frost.

sign of the cross

Many generations ago a Chapdelaine cherished a long feud with a neighbour who bore these names, and had forthwith bestowed them upon an old, tired, lame horse of his, that he might give himself the pleasure every day when passing the enemy's house of calling out very loudly:—"Charles Eugene, ill-favoured beast that you are! Wretched, badly brought up creature! Get along, Charles Eugene!"

J'irai la voir un jour, M'asseoir pres de son trone, Recevoir ma couronne Et regner a mon tour ...

And your father dead too

a dollar

The item was received without interest. Peribonka farmers are not particular about correcting their boundaries to gain or lose a few square feet, since the most enterprising among them have still two-thirds of their grants to clear,—endless acres of woodland and swamp to reclaim.

Napoleon Laliberte

The French implored them, with clasped hands, only to give them daily a piece of biscuit as large as one's thumb, to keep them from dying.

Saint Joseph

On the 7th

the yroquois

defende

tenebræ

laudate Dominum omnes gentes

Monsieur

There was merely Instruction before the blessing, and a word about our lady after the Gospel; this is enough.

Monsieur the governor sent

The decision having been made, as all the bodies are to be transported to the Village where is the common grave, each family sees to its dead, but with a care and affection that cannot be described: if they have dead relatives in any part of the Country, they spare no trouble to go for them; they take them from the Cemeteries, bear them on their shoulders, and cover them with the finest robes they have.

Now all the presents do not follow the dead man into the grave; sometimes a Porcelain collar is put around his neck, and near by a comb, a gourd full of oil, and two or three little loaves of bread; and that is all.

As soon as the sick man has drawn his last breath, they place him in the position in which he is to be in the grave; they do not stretch him at length as we do, but place him in a crouching posture, almost the same that a child has in its mother's womb.

they ought also to present their children to the service of God, and if they did so God would take a more particular care of them;

Cùm eram Parvulus, loquebar ut Parvulus, sapiebam ut parvulus; cùm autem factus ero vir, evacuabo quœ, erant Parvuli

He said that the French who had been here had never spoken to them of God, but had been as much addicted as they to run after and dally with the women.

he tried to blend our creed with their superstitions and nonsense, and said that he wished to go with his Ancestors.