Sub-subseries
This sub-subseries chronicles the family ties between Joseph Ovide Turgeon and Charles Laberge. It provides an intimate look at a tutoring relationship in a 19th-century upper-middle-class Quebec family. It also offers insight into the personal, academic and professional life of Joseph Ovide Turgeon.
Composed primarily of correspondence sent to Charles Laberge, it notably contains a letter describing the explosion of the gunpowder magazine near St. John's gate in Quebec City on March 4, 1864, and another, dated April 30, 1867, in which Turgeon discusses how Canada lags behind European countries.
Source of title proper: Based on the contents of the sub-series.
Language: The documents are in French.
Last update: June 8, 2018
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