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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.

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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

Iron Bars And Bookshelves: A History of the

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    A Paperback / softback by Louisa Blair, Patrick Donovan, Donald Fyson

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      Publisher: Baraka Books
      Publication Date: 30/07/2016
      ISBN13: 9781771860802, 978-1771860802
      ISBN10: 1771860804
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      Trade Review
      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

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