Series
This series
focusses on Thérèse Bénard's education, specifically the framework for
evaluating her schoolwork and conduct.
It is
composed of thirteen "Honourable mention" cards dated between March
1912 and February 1917, which recognize her manners, comportment and work. Nine
of these cards were issued by the Pensionnat Saint-Basile school in Montreal.
The others do not indicate the name of an institution. The signatures
include Sister Jean l'Évangéliste, Sister M. de Saint-Stanislas and Sister
Marie de Saint-Clotilde. A
copy of Payson, Dunton & Scribner's National System of Penmanship in
Twelve Numbers, number two, published in Montreal, completes the series.
Featuring instructions for teachers and exercises for their students, this
notebook chronicles how Flore Vincent, Thérèse Bénard's mother, learned to
write cursive at the [Rideau] Street Convent in Ottawa. The notebook
bears the handwritten date of January 21, 1889.
Source
of title proper: Based
on the contents of the series.
Language: The documents are in French
and English.
Last update: February 26, 2019
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