Iron Bars And Bookshelves
A History of the Morrin Centre
Patrick Donovan author Donald Fyson author Louisa Blair author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Baraka Books
Published:30th Jul '16
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
The Morrin Centre in Quebec City, built on the site of military barracks known as the Royal Redoubt, served first as a “common gaol” (public prison), then as the Morrin College, the first English-language institute of higher education in the city, and has been home to the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec for many years. The Society has hosted in its astonishing library such illustrious figures as Charles Dickens and Emmelyne Pankhurst. With incredible anecdotes, the authors guide us through the building’s two-century history and its place in the history of Quebec City, Quebec, and Canada.
This book is creative nonfiction/cultural history at its best. The illustrations are excellent and well reproduced. The appearance of the work is attractive. The notes and references are copious. Here is a world in a sense - a Quebec City that has enriched its present time by the preservation and adaptation of its past inheritance." —Sandra Stock, Quebec Heritage News
ISBN: 9781771860802
Dimensions: unknown
Weight: 803g
260 pages