Saturday, October 30, 2010

When Is Trichomoniasis Cured?

Some small brief ... on the news in Quebec

This week, History and Society offers a few brief news items from newspapers puff during the first year of the blog. All these newspapers are digitized on the site's digital collection Library and Archives nationales du Québec . Where is the link to the news? None. But it's still interesting. All extracts will therefore be identified by their newspaper, the date and page. The transcripts are all full, including errors, capitalization, accents or lack thereof. These quotes are presented in chronological order, starting with the most remote in time. What justifies their choice? Quotes that represent many aspects of media in their respective eras? The little smile on reading? In the mid-academic session, is the update that we offer. Happy reading

"If the Hello! the Winter of Remarkable for WAS ITS mildness, it rocks pretty well has been "Struck gold oven These Three days past, By The extreme severity of the Weather. [...] By The forst Other accidents are spoken of; have to vouch for We Can not Their truth, dare not venture weekends to particularize them "(The Quebec Mercury, Monday, January 20, 1812, p. 7)

" Those who wish to send communications to the Canadian and who would not be known can put them in a Boëtie to this effect placed at the top of the second staircase in the house of widow Mrs. L'Heureux, above will be written Boétie. "(The Canadiens on Saturday 1 November 1817, p. 1)

" WHERE Vermet Madelaine, my wife, has thought proper to leave my house without legal cause, I hereby give notice, that I will not be responsible for any Debt she may contract, in my name from this day. ISAAC CONCIGNY » (The Quebec Mercury, le mardi 30 septembre 1817, p. 7)

« We are sorry to learn, that the Manor House, at St. Marie's, Nouvelle Beauce, belonging to Madame the widow Taschereau was wholly consumed by fire between the hours of two or three o'oclock yesterday. All the males of the family were absent at the election when the accident occured, and little of the furniture was saved; unfortunately, no part of the property was insured » (The Quebec Mercury, le mardi 14 août 1827, p. 6)

« LES ABONNÉS de ce Journal are requested to send us the amount of their abonnemens, especially those who have not yet paid for the year ending [...] (The Canadian, Friday, November 2, 1832, p. 2)

"The Prince of Wales boredom of being a threat to premature baldness. "(The Canadian, Monday, September 30, 1872, p.3)

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Annabelle Chong Implants

No update ... well almost not ...

As the title suggests, there will be no formal update this week. If you're in university is probably the beginning of your week reading. Good week. For others, it's fall continuing. In my case, it is probably the busiest period of the year. So this week I abdicate. But without fail, I'll be there next week. So see you on October 30. Halloween Special? Maybe ...?

Further to last week's note on the interpretation of heritage, I just wanted to let you know that there is a short program to second degree offered at the University of Quebec at Trois-Rivieres, which directly addresses these kinds of issues and problems. This is the Short Program, 2nd degree in interpretation and cultural mediation . I am currently enrolled and will therefore be the first graduating class after the session Summer 2011. Click the program title to access the page of it.

Meanwhile, there is still this:

As part of one of my jobs, I was made a part of the history of the Plains of Abraham and especially the prison there (the second Quebec prison, now part of National Museum of Fine Arts of Quebec ) on radio station CHOI-FM (RadioX, 98.1 FM) in the Quebec issue Maurais Live. Listen to the excerpt by clicking this link, the interview starts around 11:11 and you can also find the mp3 here .

Saturday, October 16, 2010

Red Lump On My Anus Hole

TEST: The Historian and the City (1): the role of interpreter Heritage

The annual congress of the Société des musées québécois held from October 12 to 15 in Quebec City. Under the theme Museum and Intangible Heritage: Issues and Challenges , Congress has an opportunity to hear several speakers in the museum community, a workplace where it is practiced thousands of scientific history, come and present different problems facing the heritage immaterial. Could not attend the meetings, the holding of this congress is nevertheless a great opportunity to talk yet little about the role of the historian outside academia. And although, from a reliable source, the speakers of the congress did not really address the role of interpreter, we will try to talk a little more detail. A long post that is just the beginning of a longer discussion again ...

Source: A Guide Services Historic Six-Associés interpreting Charles Dickens at the Christmas visit in 2004-2005, in Old Quebec, near the park Cavalier du Moulin. (Photographer, Annie Boulanger). Archive Six Associates.
choices that arise According to the historian of the university are many. But we must admit that the historian who wishes to make history in the sense that he would call to study and understand the past, all outside the circles university, are not numerous. One of the best options is certainly looking for specialized firms. These companies exist and are numerous. This ticket does not address this option. This post deals with another option that may be interesting interpretation of history or more precisely the interpretation of heritage. We want here to distinguish between history and heritage. Indeed, the story is to say a study of the past through a scientific method by studying, comparing and linking a variety of sources is one thing. We are aware that this is a noble goal. But we do not believe can make the interpretation of history.
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Source: "Freeman Tilden," U.S. National Park Service, online consultation , October 16, 2010.
Interpretation was first theorized by the American Freeman Tilden (above). Tilden is a journalist who publishes for the first time in 1957 a study that shows different rules of interpretation in his book Interpreting Our Heritage (University of North Carolina Press, 1957) following a request by the National Park Service of the United States. For purposes of this discussion, we chose to retain the definition of the International Council on Monuments and Sites which defines interpretation as follows:
"interpretation refers to all potential activities intended to increase public awareness and enhance understanding of the cultural heritage site. This may include publications, conferences, facilities on-site educational programs, community activities and research, training and ongoing evaluation of the interpretation process itself. " (from ICOMOS Charter for the interpretation and presentation of cultural and heritage sites, 2008, online consultation )
So, it is" to increase public awareness "by an exercise communication can become very complex. It therefore necessarily spell the academic sphere and research that need to be valid, a set of sources and arguments are presented and organized following a scientific method. Not that the interpretation does not meet its own rigorous methods and principles, this is simply not the same as the methods of the academic historian.


Source: François Poisson Barbarians Obliques Trois-Rivières present fear of the Tour de Trois-Rivieres (photographer, François Pilon), online consultation , October 16, 2010.

Thus, heritage alongside this world, but is motivated by other goals. objectives that are similar to those of interpretation. In fact, we accept the definition Consulting Group's policy of Quebec's heritage that defines heritage as "any object or [...] Overall, tangible or intangible, known collectively and appropriate for its value as evidence and historical memory and deserving of protection, preserved and enhanced " ( online consultation , p. 33) .

Crédit : Musée Stewart









Source: The photograph presents a guide to the Stewart Museum Montreal featuring "The path of night owls", a guided tour in Snowshoe, online consultation , October 16, 2010.

It thus refers to an object that is "recognized", so that has already been studied on university benches, one refers to the value of "Truth and Historical Memory" which implies an emotional ownership by the public; and it refers to what should be "protected, preserved and enhanced" So a choice that is either public or political, organizational or because someone has decided that this past should be transmitted to future generations. In short, the action transmit (such as action to produce academic research in history for that matter) is never accidental.

François Vidal à la Place Royale à la fin d'une visite à pied du Vieux-Québec
Source: Guide See François Vidal towers Quebec Place Royale at the end of a tour of Old Quebec, online consultation , October 16, 2010.

Thus, university-trained historian will perhaps not be called a career. It must therefore find its niche. Is not given to everyone to begin to publish or to seek a satisfactory manner. And we must not hide the fact that knowledge of the past often takes the form of a passion among those who wish to pursue history. And interpretation of heritage is certainly a good option. The academic historian is well equipped to face the challenges of professional guide. Strong scientific method to read and understand the sources and historical materials, a sharp analytical mind. Only remains for him to gain experience in addressing the general public, nothing but a good background in animation can learn (understanding that it must also have the benefit of this knowledge to speak to the public) . But this area is ungrateful.

Few employers and organizations that recognize the true value of this work. First, it faces a major problem etymological guide, facilitator guide, interpreter, guide and interpreter, tour guide, hotel guide and facilitator are only a few concepts that will refer sometimes to the same reality, sometimes very different realities. And this, not to mention actors who do street theater history, drivers of taxis or horse drawn carriages that offer tours, guides school, other historians and scholars of the past become the guides for a stroll or conference, genealogists and many others!

We believe that the guide, whatever its form (either costumed historical figure or not, he plays a specific character or invented or that it simply presents itself as a guide) is an important transmission belt our past and our heritage more realistically (brief elements of our past that we wish to pass on to future generations). Who better than a person properly trained and competent to answer questions from visitors? Who better than a person present to hear the reactions of visitors to the content of exhibitions and visits to adjust the content to better meet the demands visitors? Who better to talk about intangible heritage, the things you can not see or even better, to help understand the evidence that these realities are immaterial? Who better to help create an experience "multisensory" that will be unforgettable? It is still present multimedia, interactive exhibition, the experience of feelings by manipulating objects or original works. But the guide would happen with good technical knowledge and could better meet the specific needs of visitors.

That several heritage sites and museums drop their own wage Guides misery, working conditions or outdated considering that this work should go only to volunteers or students minimum wage for summer is an absurdity. And too often the reality. ATTENTION: We believe that without volunteers, heritage institutions (and by extension cultural institutions at large) would sink into the abyss unfathomable and can not survive (the picture is a little strong, but nonetheless true). But it is especially true that the guides are a resource the less well exploited by many institutions.

We believe that the university-trained historian should broadly according to their desires and skills, integrated into the labor market positions guide. The historical method is a scientifically rigorous approach to the realities of the past and know how to take what is most significant. Thus prepared, these guides could become good belting to the public but also to other guides in their respective organizations. This would also ensure that historians continue to work in history, not as "creators of new knowledge, but as a purveyor or more appropriately, as" recovery "of our heritage. It's a different way of considering the work of the professional historian, but a real alternative to academia where, moreover, there are many called but few are chosen. To do this, we believe it is important to advocate for better working conditions for Guides in the broadest sense.

Our main suggestions for employers (and employees!):
* A respectful compensation based on academic training - a guide holding a bacc. or control and which is selected for these specific skills should never accept a salary equivalent to that of an employee in a position without training (we are aware that the reality of economics, supply and demand, is quite different. But it is crucial to actively campaigned for this in your workplace - museum organizations will perhaps stopped to ask why the coordinator's position at $ 13 an hour is vacant every six months ...)

Responsibilities * Research and development are intimately linked to the academic training to increase the feeling membership and retention of staff (for example, the guide formed in history is able to search and guide formed as an engineer animation may be more likely to find good ways to share this information)

* Respect for expertise in-house: if a guide is formed in history, he can benefit from its own research and reading the rest of the organization, including individuals who do historical research as a basic work.

* Focus on training: course content and classes of container. Keeping abreast of updated skills. Make available relevant scientific articles. Create informal groups of knowledge transfer. In short, professionalize this area of work.

It is certain that all organizations have different means. I'm talking about ideals that should be a priority. Deals with cultural heritage and increasingly diverse, it will take more than objects or multimedia or interactive stations to attract and retain your visitors. It will require trained guides, competent, dynamic and can just afford a level of interaction with much denser your sources and exhibits or tours that only objects or testimony. Historically, the guides were discarded in favor of content. It is time to ask questions ... We are aware that for many organizations, the reflection is still far from the situation ideal. But we propose to begin what will, hopefully, a profound change in the recognition of our past by giving chance to the real professionals it can continue to provide the closest possible knowledge of the scientific the best way possible.

Note: It should be noted that for the purposes of this note, we have deliberately left aside the notion of mediation or mediator who recently applied to the culture. Indeed, the mediator is a person who tries to bring the visitor a culturally defined (in our case wealth) using a together even more direct techniques that the only interpreter. Although the debate between interpretation and mediation is important to simplify a technical reading enough, we wanted to avoid additional definitions and thus approach the interpretation in the broadest sense.

Saturday, October 9, 2010

Giant Cupcake Recipe Wilton

The Coliseum Quebec, 1949 to present

Note: History and Society one year old today! I invite you to visit our archives you will find a menu to the left or search the archives using the same bar for this purpose to consult all capsules currently published! Although the current draft does not look entirely to the project "Collaborative" was planned, I am very happy to have you with nearly fifty winks on the history of Quebec. In the first year, History and Society has been the subject of several articles in some media, I conducted a few interviews and even capsules on the radio, other projects are currently under development. The year 2010-2011 will be at least as interesting. Thank you for reading!

After the "Blue March" last week and an article on Nordiques in the WHA, we felt that our interest in "equipment" that is expected through the current turmoil in the region of Quebec, that is to say, the construction of a new MFC (ie the amphitheater). Of course, there is already an amphitheater in Quebec City, Colisee Pepsi, and we wanted to try to give a brief overview of its history dating back to its construction.

history of the Coliseum is intimately related to the flag of the Agriculture Committee of the Provincial Exhibition and the history of skating in Victoria Park. Indeed, the latter being destroyed by fire in 1942, the professional team at the time, the Quebec Aces who played at Victoria Park, must find a new home. The Provincial Exhibition Commission decides to change its flag of Agriculture (built in 1930) and installed an indoor rink in 1942. We do not yet speak of the Quebec Coliseum. The activities of this amphitheater will also be interrupted by a fire. This first "Colosseum" is on fire and damage is estimated at over one million dollars! But there are more worthy arena to host professional teams and Quebec Junior ... (Incidentally, the flag of Agriculture will be rebuilt and become the flag of Youth in 1970, now under the management ExpoCité).


Source: "Quebec Aces, 1949, picture of unknown origin, online consultation , October 9, 2010.

So after the fire of the first rink flag of Agriculture, March 15, 1949, the city decided to build the Coliseum in Quebec. It appealed to the architect Rob Zabrowski. Construction officially begins May 24, 1949. We work hard all summer and fall to complete construction before the end of the year. It manages this feat because this, December 8, 1949, a first meeting on the rink at the Coliseum, which opposes the Quebec Aces in the Quebec Citadels. This first part takes place before an empty auditorium ... seat! Indeed, it was not yet installed the seats in the Coliseum, which operation will be conducted during the following weeks. It ends by installing seats for 10,004 spectators. The absolute record crowd will be drawn April 25, 1951. During a game that pitted then the Barrie Flyers of the Quebec Citadels, are piled between 16 806 the walls of the Colosseum. Of course, there is more than 6000 people seating capacity of the amphitheater for this part of the Eastern final of the Memorial Cup, Cup awarded to the top junior team in the country.

Le vieux Colisée à Limoilou, à Québec, pourrait... (Photothèque Le Soleil)
Source: " The old Coliseum in Limoilou, Quebec City, could troubleshoot any NHL team in Quebec City. "The Sun Gallery, online consultation , October 9, 2010.

For the arrival of the Quebec Nordiques in the NHL for the 1979-80 season, it was decided to enlarge the building and there installs about 5000 more seats than the Coliseum reaches its maximum current 15 176 tickets. For 31 years now, the amphitheater has not experienced major changes and has hosted several parties and junior teams in professional hockey over parts of roller hockey and many musical performances and cultural demonstrations. In 1999, the city sold a sponsorship to Pepsi Co. and the Colosseum will now be known as the Pepsi Coliseum. It remains today at the amphitheater largest number of seats in Quebec City.

Saturday, October 2, 2010

Gift Card Shower Invitation Poems

Quebec Nordiques in the WHA, 1972-1979

On Saturday, October 2, 2010, almost all the Quebec media have made much of the "Blue March" (see the texts cyberpresse of radio-canada and Journal Quebec by clicking on links). This gathering, as anyone who will talk about it, or multiple different targets including the return of a franchise of National Hockey League (NHL) in the old capital or the construction of a new "entertainment complex" (read a new multipurpose auditorium). Since blue is the color of the former professional hockey team from Quebec of the National League, the Nordics, we decided to linger at a time in their history, their participation in tonight's World Hockey Association (WHA), between 1972 and 1979.


Source: Promotional poster published on page 7 of the newspaper L'Action Quebec , Thursday, October 12, 1972. Library and Archives nationales du Québec, online consultation , October 2, 2010.

In their first season at Quebec Nordiques are not a new concession itself. Indeed, leaders of the WHA managed to sell the franchise to San Francisco (called the Sharks) before the start of the first league season to a group of investors from Quebec. This group, dubbed the 'Group of Six ", was composed by Marius Fortier, Marcel Bedard, Leo-Paul Beausoleil, John Dacres, Jean-Marc Bruneau and Jean-Claude Mathieu, had divested their interests in the junior team ramparts of Quebec for investing in a professional staff.


Petit Pierre Letarte film of National Film Board of Canada about pre-season parties and moments that lead to the first part of the Quebec Nordiques. Viewed 2 October 2010.

The arrival of the Nordic marked the return of professional hockey in Quebec for the years of the Quebec Hockey Club (better known as the Quebec Bulldogs). The transaction of 215,000 dollars (a large sum compared to other franchises in the WHA, but quite small compared to the few million requested for an NHL team at that time) is entered February 11, 1972, before the first repechage WHA. But we must now find the money to run the team. Aided in extremis by owner Alberta Oilers guarantees 100,000 dollars to the team, it will eventually raise money to Place Laurier, May 5, 1972, which Nordic manage to raise over two million dollars for their operation. To help the league to recruit young talent, the minimum age for recruitment of players is lower than in the NHL. But it remains difficult to convince the established stars to make the jump. Not that nobody comes to play in the WHA (Bobby Hull signed the first contract between another one million dollars with the Jets) but Quebec is not the greatest power of attraction. Nevertheless, we are ready to play.


Source: Photographers Kedl, the 1972-73 edition of the Quebec Nordiques, online consultation , October 2, 2010.

The Nordics will play their first game on 11 October 1972 (losing to the Cleveland Crusaders). The first head coach of the Nordiques is a Maurice Richard, who will remain in that position for the first two parts of the first season, feeling too much pressure and are already heavily involved in other projects. Although these early seem difficult, the team will know a good time. They will also win the league championship in season 1976-77 (see the trophy Serge Aubry, below), finishing first in their division in 1974-75 regular season and second overall in the league during the last season in 1978-79. But several other big names have played for the WHA fleurdelisé the years. Of these, mention may Réal Cloutier, Jean-Claude Tremblay, Marc Tardif, Serge Aubry, Serge Bernier and Richard Brodeur.


Source: Serge Aubry's Quebec Nordiques 1976-77 Avco Cup Championship Trophy, online consultation , October 2, 2010.

In the second half of the 1970s, it is obvious that the WHA and the NHL will not live long, several teams experiencing financial problems. Begun in 1977, it was the winter of 1978-79 as negotiations intensify to a merger between the NHL and WHA. Although the merger is rejected, an agreement signed March 22, 1978 states that four teams including the Nordiques, Winnipeg Jets, Edmonton Oilers and Hartford Whalers joined the ranks of the NHL during the 1979-80 season . This merger confirms the end of the WHA and thus opened So a new chapter for the Quebec team. This part of the history of the team will be a future post.

An essential site for more
Quebec Nordiques - the entire history from 1972 to 1995 by Benedict Clairoux.