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“<span lang="fr" xml:lang="fr">La grande traversée</span>”

“La grande traversée”

Painting by Dominique Beauregard from the exhibition « Les Stations du curé Labelle » “Right from the start of the crossing, I noticed a very tall, very big man with […]
Curé Labelle’s Journey to Chute-aux-Iroquois

Curé Labelle’s Journey to Chute-aux-Iroquois

This photo shows one of the Curé Labelle’s expeditions to Chute-aux-Iroquois (the present-day town of Labelle). Left to right: A.B. Filion, Crown Land Agent, Petite-Nation East; Curé Samuel […]
Steamboat “SS Circassian”

Steamboat “SS Circassian”

Curé Labelle’s first Atlantic crossing began in the port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, when on February 21, 1885, he embarked on the SS Circassian, a vessel of the […]