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  1. Dec 2022
    1. The sun dipped toward the horizon, disappeared; the sky took on softer hues above the forest's dark edge, and the hour of supper brought to the house five men of the colour of the soil.

      Another detail I find beautiful!

    1. "We don't just want to look at some games and drink beers. You have to work, but even if you're not a theologian student you can follow the class," he said, adding that those who don't believe the team is a religion can still earn high marks.

      Got to have beer when watching the game!

    2. "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.

      This is a good statement! A lot of countries love sports!

    1. Retired Red Wings tough guy Jimmy Orlando had spotted thefan heading toward Campbell and bounded from his seat inpursuit.

      Jimmy Orlando tried to stop it, but was unsuccessful!

    2. During the first-period intermission a fan marched up thesteps and extended his hand for what Campbell assumed would be ahandshake. Campbell stuck out his hand. He got a slap in theface

      that must have been really shocking, on top of that it is incredibly disrespectful. I wouldn't necessarily call that person a fan? unless they are talking about just a fan of the sport!

    1. “When I’m hit, I get mad and I don’t know what I do,” he confided in one writer. “Before each game, I think about my temper and how I should control it, but as soon as I get on the ice I forget all that.”

      This seems like a cry for help

    2. George Hayes, who had come between Richard and a Toronto player he was fighting. Richard had also struck that player

      Poor guy, he was just trying to stop them ....

    3. Yet Richard had a dark side. His intensity sometimes provoked violence. His tantrums had become as legendary as his goals.

      It seems he was known to lose his temper....

    4. “The Babe Ruth of hockey,” Wind wrote.

      Seems like he had such drive for hockey, its just too bad he couldn't control his anger. I know Laycoe started it, but he did not need to finish it so to speak.....

    5. For five minutes, the tempest rages. The crowd, on its feet, cannot believe the madness before them. They’ve seen fights over the Garden’s past three decades in the days when players swung their sticks and fists more liberally, but nothing like this, nothing as determined and wild.

      I can't imagine being in the crowd at this time! It must have been scary as well as shocking!

    6. Boston police come to the locker room. They want to arrest Richard for assault, to throw him in jail for the night.

      He needed to go to jail for longer than a night!

    1. After the riot, the NHL began to crack down on all-out brawls (especially carrying your stick into one), though it would take another 25 years for the changes to take effect with the institution of the third-man-in rule. 

      They had to keep people safe!

    2. Montreal went nuts, both French and English, and with Detroit coming in for a St. Patrick's Day game at the Forum, revenge was on some fans' minds. However, nothing may have happened if Campbell hadn't made a tactical error — he showed up to the game (10 minutes late) with his secretary (future wife) and took his regular place.

      When it comes to sports fans, sometimes they can be a little much!

  2. Nov 2022
    1. I gave notice on Easter Day that the benediction would take place at evening about 7 o'clock and, on the following Days, the benediction at the religious houses at the end of vespers at the parish church.

      basically what this means is that on Easter, he went and did an evening prayer. Vespers is a Catholic thing where they pray in the evening.

    2. 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.

      Salmon love the cold!

    3. Little else of importance occurs during the cold season. " The winter's Work was to pile sand for building and wood for heating."

      If they do not get wood they would freeze to deAth, SO this makes sense.

    1. At the end of this time, his sister appeared to him in the night, with a dish of meal cooked in water, after the fashion of the country, which she gave to him, and disappeared at the moment he wished to put his hand on her and stop her.

      At first I thought she had died but it appears he just lost her? Or did she die?

    2. . Father Mercier, who had had good health all the way from France, was seized with a slight fever a day or two before his arrival among the Hurons

      I wonder if this means he was just sick with a fever or if he was put into quarantine or something like that?

    3. In the year 1628, when the English defeated the fleet of the Company of New France, whose loss was the damnation of many Canadians and the postponement of the conversion of many others, as. may be believed,—there happened to me in this country an incident almost the same as the preceding, which, by reason of its likeness to it, seems to me worth relating here.

      This was the attack on new France, they seem to be discussing the loss Canadians had to deal with.

    4. There is in our village a little Christian girl named Louyse, who at six months began to walk alone; the [page 13] parents declare they have seen nothing like it, and ,attribute it to the efficacy of Holy Baptism. Another person told us one day, with great delight, that his little [7] boy, who had always been sick and much emaciated before Baptism, had been very well since then. This will suffice to show how Our Lord is inspiring them with a high opinion of this divine Sacrament, which is strengthened by the perfect health God gives us, and which he has given to all the French who have been in this country; for, they say, it is very strange that, except a single man who died here from natural causes, all the others, during the twenty-five years or thereabout in which the, French have been frequenting this region, have scarcely ever been sick.

      They really felt that Baptism was all healing and wanted the people of France to know that.

    5. During the year, the missionaries in that far-away field have baptized eighty-six savages,—an encouraging gain over the fourteen who were "

      I remember reading somewhere that they felt Natives were not saved because of a lot of simple practices they used to do and so they felt they needed to try extra hard to save them