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Quebec Studies: CDNS4510A
CDNS5003A FINS4510A Summer 2013:
Quebec city Field Trip
Quebec Studies: CDNS5003A - summer
2013: Quebec City Field Trip – Course
professor: Anne Trepanier - Reflection #1
& the first 6 logs By: Ghada G. A. Mohamed
In this document I present the first reflection of the course in addition to the second reflection
and the ten required logs days of the field trip to Quebec City dated from Monday 27th to
Thursday June 6th, 2013
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When the arts
talk about the
nation, the
nationalism and
the national
identity
When the glory of the
history narrates its story
in a coherent
methodological
succession; this
analytical piece can
reflect what’s behind the
scene.
Three collections
narrate what’s
behind the scene By: Ghada G. A. Mohamed
Musée des Beaux-Arts du Québec, the Musée de l’Amérique
Française, the Musée de la civilisation and Musée de la place Royale.
Sources:
On-line sources:
Le musée des Beaux-Arts du Québec:
http://www.mnba.qc.ca/Afficher.aspx?page=1113&langue=en
Le musée de l’Amérique Française: http://www.mcq.org/en/maf/
Le musée de la civilisation: http://www.mcq.org/index_en.html
Le musée de la place Royale: http://www.mcq.org/en/cipr/index.html
Readings:
- Alun Munslow Narrative and History Narrating the past
- Alun Munslow History as expression
- Homi K. Bhabha Nation and narration
- Timothy Brennan, The National Longing for form
- Homi K. Bhabha, Dissemination
- Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting. Translated by
Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer
- Paul Ricoeur, The Historian’s Representation – Representation
and Narration
- Paul Ricoeur, Representation and Rhetoric
- Kieran Keohane, Symptoms of Canada. An Essay on Canadian
Identity. University of Toronto Press, 1997, 198 pages.
o Chapter 2: National Identity and the Theft of National
enjoyment.
o Chapter 10: Socializing with Cyborgs: In the Restaurant
at the End of the Trans-Canada Highway.
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Log 1: My field trip to Quebec City
Log 2: The glory of the past & the identity of the present
Log 3: The herald of the past & the cross in the heart
Log 4: Facing Champlain
Log 5: Identity Conflicts
Log 6: The Fate of America
Log 7: The language of the history
Log 8: The lion and the lily – Je Me Souviens
Log 9: A lot of walking
Log 10: Living in a world heritage city
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Reflection 1:
Three collections narrate what’s behind the
scene:
Source of pictures: http://www.mnba.qc.ca/Contenu.aspx?page=1529&langue=en,
http://www.mcq.org/en/maf/expositions.php?idEx=w3705, http://www.mcq.org/place-royale/en/questions.php?question=2
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Unlike Alun Munslow; Narrative and History; I begin by supporting strict
constructionists that no further investigation is required with a clear text. Unlike
Munslow’s argument; I argue that the history represents the past, its epics and glory
and nothing but the past without explanation or interpretation. Like Alun Munslow;
History as expression; museums, heritage and memorials are the painters’ modes of
historians. Like Paul Ricoeur; The Historian’s Representation; the history book has its
readers. Readers do nothing but reading what has been written as a narration to the
past as facts and knowledge. From here I start reading le musée des Beaux Arts du
Quebec, le musée de l’Amerique Francaise, le musée de la civilization and musée de
la place Royale as books of history that presents the past and nothing but the past
without explanation or interpretation.
More than 37000 works dating from the 17th
century in the Musee des Beaux Arts du
Quebec, the clear representation of the past represented in the Musee de l’Amerique
Francaise founded by Monseigneur de Laval in 1663 could depict the past with its
religious power, with its armor glory. All collections including ancient coins, medals,
fossils, paintings books, etc. dated back to 1806 writes only one message to all
readers; the history is the past and the past is the clear history of Quebec City without
explanation or interpretation. This message was even clearer in the Musee de la
civilization and Musée de la place Royale that the French culture has the power, the
roots, and the herald of the city. The history before them has been abrogated. Even
the Americans and the British with all their collections, objects, religious symbols in
all of those Museums could not change this clear message.
The succession was clear in all paintings; the methodology was coherent. Everything
in those museums was well organized and well colored to confirm the identity of the
city; be Quebecois or not to be – be French or not to be. No single proof of
multiculturalism could be found on those museums. It again confirms on my
argument that the history is the past and the past is the history. The past still
determines the identity of the city but not all the past; only the past that can be
accepted to be shown to public readers or public visitors. The Scattered Indigenous
people' objects and collections show political compromise more than artistic reality
which have created a distortion in the coherence of the succession of the identified
artistic events.
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Three types of collections combined the vocabularies of my telling story; THE
DETAILS JACQUES CARTIER RENCONTRE LES INDIENS À STADACONÉ,
1535 in the Musee des Beaux Arts du Quebec, the priests’ collections in the Musee de
l’Amerique Francaise, and the Founding of Québec painting in the Musée de la place
Royale. Those collections show the foundation, the existence, and the insistence on
weaving the national identity from the past to the present as an independent nation in
terms of culture, language, religion, and power. Despite secularism and
multiculturalism evolution, the city still lives the past, the herald of Mary the virgin
still flies in the city's skyline, and the cross still lies in its sacred heart and on its
national flag. Quebec City in my view is a unique story that contradicts Homi K.
Bhabha’s view in his “Narrating the Nation” book that the nation loses its origin in
the myth of time. In contrary to his view, Quebec City has never lost its origin that is
related in its memory to July 3, 1608 when Champlain and his group of 27 men
landed on the riverbank. The memory of the walls of Quebec City cannot remember
the time before and cannot recognize the present time. The walls do not tell the
struggle of the Indigenous or the presence of immigrants but in very few words.
Quebec City is the nation that lies inside a different nation.
Ghada Mohamed, Quebec City, June 2nd
, 2013
Sources:
On-line sources:
- Musee des Beaux Arts du Quebec Website:
http://www.mnba.qc.ca/Afficher.aspx?page=1113&langue=en
- The Musee de l’Amerique Francaise Website: http://www.mcq.org/en/maf/
- The Musee de la civilization Website: http://www.mcq.org/index_en.html
- Musée de la place Royale Website: http://www.mcq.org/en/cipr/index.html
Readings:
- Alun Munslow Narrative and History Narrating the past
- Alun Munslow History as expression
- Homi K. Bhabha Nation and narration
- Paul Ricoeur, The Historian’s Representation – Representation and Narration
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When the arts
talk about the
nation, the
nationalism and
the national
identity
When the glory of the
history narrates its story
in a coherent
methodological
succession; this
analytical piece can
reflect what’s behind the
scene.
Three tours
narrate what’s
behind the scene By: Ghada G. A. Mohamed
- Saint-Paul Street
- The tour to/in the Morrin College
- At and in the National Assembly of Quebec City and the National
Capital Commission.
Keywords: Music, Color, Symbols, Monuments, Colony, Libraries,
Medieval age prisons, Languages, The lily, the rose, the lion, the cross, and
the flag, National belonging, Nationalism, Nation, Identity, Autonomous,
Sovereignty, Post-colonial era, Modernity.
Sources:
On-line sources:
- Marrion college Website: http://www.morrin.org/pages/site.php
- The National Assembly Website: http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/abc-
assemblee/assemblee-nationale/index.html
Readings:
- Alun Munslow Narrative and History Narrating the past
- Alun Munslow History as expression
- Homi K. Bhabha Nation and narration
- Timothy Brennan, The National Longing for form
- Homi K. Bhabha, DissemiNation
- Paul Ricoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting. Translated by
Kathleen Blamey and David Pellauer
- Paul Ricoeur, The Historian’s Representation – Representation
and Narration
- Paul Ricoeur, Representation and Rhetoric
- Kieran Keohane, Symptoms of Canada. An Essay on Canadian
Identity. University of Toronto Press, 1997, 198 pages.
o Chapter 2: National Identity and the Theft of National
enjoyment.
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o Chapter 10: Socializing with Cyborgs: In the Restaurant at the End of the Trans-
Canada Highway.
- Linda Cardinal, Language Planning and Policy Making in Quebec and in Canada, p. 184 –
201
- Daniel Weinstock, the Politics of Language: Philosophical reflections on the case of Quebec,
p. 202 - 211
Reflection 2:
Three Tours Narrate what’s Behind the Scene:
Source of pictures: http://senami-art.blogspot.ca/,
http://www.virtualtourist.com/travel/North_America/Canada/Province_of_Quebec/Quebec-905108/Off_the_Beaten_Path-
Quebec-MISC-BR-1.html, http://www.glasssteelandstone.com/BuildingDetail/669.php
When I moved from an alley to an alley, from a street to a street passing by memorial
walls, monuments, historical architectures, museums, pubs, and shops in Quebec City
I remembered Homi K. Bhabha’s question in his DissemiNation: Time, Narrative and
the Margins of the Modern Nation: “Why do nations celebrate their hoariness not
their astonishing youth?” I remembered his arguments about nationalism, nation,
identity, languages, history, and modernity to answer this question. I stopped at the
language as a main element that determines all concepts related to the nation, the
identity, the sovereignty, the culture, and the power. The language was the key factor
of understanding the past, the present and the future of Quebec City by reading its
walls, painting and by passing by their alleys. Three different tours made me decode
the language of Quebec City; the language of its colors, the language of its symbols,
the language of its public institutions, and the language of its people. Like Linda
Cardinal in her Language planning and policy making in Quebec and in Canada; I
argue that the language does not only decode paradigms and symbols but it also
confirms on the identity and differentiates it from others’ identities. Despite the fact I
found in Quebec City that the French Language is the dominant language in Quebec
City and it is the language that determines its national identity but my tours to
different places made me waiting before jumping to conclusions. My tour in Saint-
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Paul Street, at/ inside the Marrion College and to/ in the national assembly of Quebec
City could show me different aspects of the city. The language of colors and the
language of signs were an admixture of different types of languages. Inside St. Paul’s
street the historical admixture with the modernity with the Inuit’s contemporary arts
gave an example of complex over-lapping identities to the city, the way the Morrion
College was built on the ruins of the Medieval age’s oppression gave an example of a
new philosophical admixture of complex overlapping historical fingerprints that no
one can deuce to whom they belong. In our way to the national assembly; the
complex interface between the past and the modernity manifested in buildings, street
planning, gates, rocks, walls, tress, and statues sent an ambiguous message of
unreadable language. Inside the national assembly; the tour started from a big
entrance that was drawn with all colors, with all symbols, and with all types of
materials. In our way to the assembly’s chambers; each room was painted in a
different color; the color of the British colony, the color of the French colony, the
color of the confederation. The lily was mixed with the rose. The cross was mixed
with the crown. The religion was mixed with the secularism symbols, and the English
was mixed with the French.
After those tours; I realized that there are identity conflicts in Quebec City; a conflict
between the past and the present and another conflict between the national identity
and the cultural identity. Despite the complex of the philosophical admixture, the
cultural/national dough was not soft enough to shape a unified convenient
identification.
“Why do nations celebrate their hoariness not their astonishing youth?” I went back
to Bhabha’s question again. After my tours the answer was clearer; Quebec City
needs to remember always the past because the present is so confusing to its
announced national identity. In order for Quebec City to maintain its national identity
it needs to preserve its historical heritages and to try to link the present to the past not
vice versa so it can always justify its French language and French culture despite facts
of demographic change and despite all secularism & modernization movements that
confront its religious legacy.
Quebec City is not only a mysterious city but it is the city that resists the time
horizon.
Sources:
On-line sources:
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- Marrion college Website: http://www.morrin.org/pages/site.php
- The National Assembly Website: http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/abc-assemblee/assemblee-
nationale/index.html
Readings:
- Alun Munslow Narrative and History Narrating the past
- Alun Munslow History as expression
- Homi K. Bhabha Nation and narration
- Homi K. Bhabha, DissemiNation
- Paul Ricoeur, The Historian’s Representation – Representation and Narration
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10 Logs in 10 different
days in Quebec City
Log 1: My field trip to Quebec City
Log 2: The glory of the past & the identity of the present
Log 3: The herald of the past & the cross in the heart
Log 4: Facing Champlain
Log 5: Identity Conflicts
Log 6: The Fate of America
Log 7: The language of the history
Log 8: The lion and the lily – Je Me Souviens
Log 9: A lot of walking
Log 10: Living in a world heritage city
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Log 1: First Day: Monday 27th
, 2013
The First Day of the 10 Days – My Field Trip to Quebec City
Picture source: http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Hotel_Review-g155033-d264311-Reviews-Auberge_de_la_Paix-
Quebec_City_Quebec.html
On the first day of the field trip to Quebec City; the meeting was at Ottawa train
station and from a train to another train we arrived to the beautiful city of Quebec. I
felt I arrived to a new country not to a new city. I felt I am in an old beautiful
advanced well planned European country. Each single place in the city speaks a story.
The pubs, the shopping stores, the restaurants, the walls, the streets, and the entire
design tell many stories. The air smells a story. Everything was beautiful, the city and
its people.
We went in a group to the hostel; L'Auberge de la Paix; the hostel and the way to the
hostel made me feeling that I am in Paris; again in Paris and again walking in its
beautiful alleys. The sound of France and the smell of France was everywhere. We
went to our rooms and I recognized that I will have to go through an adventure; a new
life experience. Four of us would sleep in the same room on four- small beds. Each
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one of us was in a different age. I was the oldest and the quietest. I liked the idea and
I liked the whole adventure.
On 7:00 pm it was our plan to go together to have our welcome dinner at Rue Saint-
Paul; everyone was laughing. We were very happy. We were embracing the life and
our happiness. In the restaurant; I have taken my first decision in the trip; the decision
to live the culture of Quebec City not just to address it. I loved the city and its culture
from the first moment. I closed my eyes to imagine the past and to predict for the
future. From Alun Munslow; I started to narrate the past to tell the story of the
beautiful Quebec City. The true story has started in the second day of the field trip.
That was my first day in Quebec City; Ghada Mohamed; Quebec City, June 1st, 2013
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Log 2: Second Day: Tuesday 28th
, 2013
The Second Day of the 10 Days - The glory of the past & the identity of the present
Source of picture: http://www.toursvoirquebec.com/fr/tours-du-vieux-quebec/observatoire
1. L’Observatoire de la capital
2. Quebec Secretariat
3. Minister of International Relations
Reading: Alun Munslow Narrative and History
“Viewing history as literary artifact is not a debilitating nor less a terminal complaint. Rather,
recognising the importance of narrative explanation in our lives as well as in the study of the past could
liberate historians as we acknowledge and try to narrate the disruptive discontinuity and chaos of the
past for and in the present.” Alun Munslow
In the second day of our field trip to Quebec City; the trip has been started from
L’Observatoire de la Capitale; from there the guide has started to narrate the history
as a literary artifact as she was reading the past from on the crust of the river. Despite
Munslow’s argument that the history is not the past but the narration was all about the
past that she considered the history of founding the city. The guide’s narration has
started in a successive series of events begun from Lake Champlain and epics of
founding Quebec City. From the guide’s narration I felt that I was watching the entire
historical epic. I was following with my imagination the guide’s narration. We were
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moving from a spot to a spot following the succession of the events. Every place
starting from the Lake was drawing the past; the past that started by the French
explorer; Samuel de Champlain as nothing happened in the city before that time and
before that date. The guide started speaking about the battles of the French and then
the battles between the British and the French referring to images we watch from the
window of the observatory as they were drawing everywhere in the city. From the
guide’s narration; I have known that I am walking in the past; the past of Quebec City
and the message was clear that I was there to learn about the past that determines the
identity of the city. The consistency between the story telling and the design of the
city was unbelievable as the city has been drawn by the feather of the history.
In my way to the Quebec Secretariat and the Minister of International relations
buildings I was thinking only about the amazing literary artifact of the city that has
been emphasized by Josee Bergeron and Geneviecve Desy who confirmed on the
identity of the New France or the identity of Quebec City that Quebec City has an
independent and a separate identity that emerges from the past not from the present of
Canada. This was the lesson I got in the second day; Quebec City’s identity emerges
from the past.
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Log 3: Third Day: Wednesday 29th
, 2013
The Third Day of the 10 Days – The herald of the past & the cross in the heart
Source: http://www.trekbd.com/2011/11/notre-dame-basilica-cathedral-at-quebec.html
- The Cathedral
- The Musee de l’Amerique Francaise
- Cartier Street
- Musee de Beaux Arts du Quebec
-
Reading: Edited by Homi K. Bhabha Nation and narration
Homi K. Bhabha, Dissemination
Timothy Brennan, The national Longing for form
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In the third day of the field trip; the message of the identity of Quebec City has been
extended from the glory of the past to the herald of the past. We started the third day
tour from the main cathedral where I found the clear message of the identity of the
Quebec nation; the cross and the herald of merry are located inside the heart of
Quebec City. It was very obvious that the British colony could not change the faith
and the belief of Quebecers along the history. The catholic cathedral stands highness
along the time. It is not that as Homi K. Bhabha in his book “Nation and narration”
said the nation loses its origin in the myth of time. Quebec City has sent a clear
message that it is a nation that does not lose its identity that emerges from both the
glory and the herald of its past; the past it considers since foundation and never before
or after that date; 1608. This message has been confirmed when we moved from there
to both the Musee de l’Amerique Francaise and the Musee de Beaux Arts du Quebec.
Paintings, collections, objects, and everything in both museums were sending the
same message; the message of the past that started from its foundation by Champlain,
the message of its language, the message of its culture and the message of its religion
and faith. Despite battles along that history; its French culture has never been changed
or got affected. The message was that clear starting from the Cathedral and ending to
both museums.
The Cartier street; its flags, buildings, walls, shops, graffiti, and all architectures
sends the same message; the message of the language of the national belonging. The
message has been explained by Homi Bhabha and Timothy Brennan; the message of
the identity and the message of the national belonging. Quebec City to me is the
nation that understands its own language and knows to whom it belongs at least
according to my third day’s understanding.
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Log 4: Forth Day: Thursday 30th
, 2013
The Fourth Day of the 10 Days – Facing Champlain
Sources of pictures: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1340570/ , http://www.mcq.org/place-royale/en/lieux.php
- The ferry
- Tour of Place Royale
- Centre of Place Royale
- Film Champlain
Reading: Paul Rocoeur, Memory, History, Forgetting.
The philosophy of the history and the how the history is written, remembered or
forgotten was not only written by Recoeur or narrated by Munslow. It has been
written on St. Lawrence River when we have taken all together the ferry tour to go
through the history and to understand its philosophy. Another tour of Palace Royale
followed the ferry tour; the Place Royale where the birth place of French America
and the hub of trade to many people along the history; the history that show the birth
of a new era of a prosper economy and a new face of the city. The cross was still
centered in the heart of the street. In Place Royale we have seen centers of the Inuit’s
contemporary arts that were located in an inconsistency with the rest of the
monuments in the street as they were trying hard to find a place for themselves in the
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city. The Inuit’s contemporary arts could not express themselves clearly while
Facing Champlain: A work in 3 dimensions was working to send a different message;
the same message that we were reading everywhere in the city; the history, the past,
the art, the culture, the language, and the faith can only be memorized since the
foundation of Quebec City as nothing happened before that date. In the end of the
tour we dressed up the Medieval French costumes and we lived the French traditional
culture in the medieval time for an hour. It was a lot of fun and we had many pictures
together. The cross and the priest’s costume were also the main costume in the
medieval age exhibition. The admixture of the theology, the philosophy and the
history discussed by Paul Ricoeur could represent clearly the fourth day of our field
trip to Quebec City. No more questions were left in my mind to ask. All answers were
clear and the message was expressed even more clearly by Champlain in his film.
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Log 5: Fifth Day: Friday May, 31st, 2013
The Forth Day of the 10 Days – Identity Conflicts
Source of picture: http://www.mcq.org/mobile/fr/expositions/expo-w250/galerie/image-2
- Musee de la civilization
- Le Temps de Quebecois
- We, the First Nations
Reading: Kieran Keohane, Symptoms of Canada. An Essay on Canadian Identity, Toronto,
University of Toronto Press, 1997.
The national identity and the theft of national enjoyment was the main title of the fifth
day tour. The enjoyment of Canadians as described in Keohane’s essays is different
than the enjoyment of others; it’s the enjoyment that determines a new identity; an
identity that differentiates itself from the identity of others. In the fifth day’s tour and
readings; there’s an obvious skip from the past to the modernity but the modernity
that crippled the past behind bars - so it cannot be changed or forgotten - to the
present with a new definition of the national identity that is scattered among the
multiculturalism and the admixture of indigenous’ arts, the new France, the new
England, and the American arts. In the fifth day we started to see such conflicts
among all those cultures. For the first time we could see ideological and historical
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conflicts that appeared clearly in paintings, collections, and objects that could create
a new identity; the identity that includes in the folds common characters of all of
those overlapping identities.
The national enjoyment is the enjoyment that Quebecers and the New Canadians
define from their style of life that differs from others. The question was always about
who those others are. The others could not be explained clearly whether in the
museum or in the readings. The confusion in determining who those others are can
explain the confusion of the definition of the national identity adopted by Keohane’s
essays who was himself confused between immigrants as new Canadians or as the
negative side effect of the globalization.
The Musee de la Civilization was explaining the overlapping identical conflicts but
from an acute angle; the angle that does not contain all Quebecers nowadays and
hence the definition of the national identity represented by the adopted methodology
of the museum wasn’t comprehensive enough to encompass the real national identity
of the nation or what we can call the real cultural identity of the nation. Yet, I could
understand that it’s all about a selected portion of the history.
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Log 6: Seventh Day: Sunday June 2nd
, 2013
The Seventh Day of the 10 Days – The Fate of America
Source of picture: http://picsbox.biz/key/plains%20of%20abraham%20map
The movie by Jacques Godbout, 1997, 81 min 27 s
- The Battle of the plains of Abraham
- Montcalm and Wolfe both of whom died in the battle that would give birth to Canada and to
the province of Quebec.
Source: http://www.nfb.ca/film/Fate_of_America_The
This time was a different type of narration; the story telling and back again to Alun
Manslow, was different in the Fate of America documentary. The narrator started
with the hypothesis of the difference between the fiction and the true history to test
throughout his story; the story of the Battle of the Plains of Abraham. The story that
included in the folds the main personals those were behind the birth of Quebec and of
Canada. Montcalm and Wolfe; two personals represent the conflict between the
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the old French and the indigenous, where both of whom died with their famous last
words “I Die Content”.
Once again; each word in the documentary sends the same message; the message that
relates the culture, the language, the power and all determinants of the national
identity to the past of the colony as nothing happened before that past to draw the
history of Quebec City. The documentary could not test its hypothesis and could not
tell the difference between the fiction and the true history in a deterministic way. To
Alun Munslow; the history can be narrated according to the view of the narrator. To
me; I could get the message even more clearly; the national identity of Quebec starts
from this point of the history and it is centered in the heart of the French culture.
Despite the British conquer of the land but the French culture could not be defeated in
Quebec City along this history. The test of the hypothesis does not matter anymore. It
is just a fact and a fait accompli.
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Log 7: Eighth Day: Monday June 3rd
, 2013
The Eighth Day of the 10 Days – The language of the history
Source of pictures: http://www.pro.rcip-chin.gc.ca/GetMember.do?lang=en&id=guaeew&ens=cnRsTGFuZz1lbg==,
http://www.bonjourquebec.com/qc-fr/repertoire-attraits/musee-centre-dinterpretation-site-historique/residence-du-gouverneur-general-a-la-citadelle_97773405.html
- Prof. Donald Fyson Anglos in Quebec City
- Morrin College
- Interface: Federal presence in Quebec City (Battlefield commission and Parcs Canada). Maison de la
decouverte.
Readings:
o Linda Cardinal, Language Planning and policy making in Quebec and in Canada.
o Daniel Weinstock, the politics of language: Philosophical reflections on the case of
Quebec
Where were indigenous in your story? Their existence was insignificant in the history
of the Anglos in Quebec City. That was my question and this was Prof. Fyson’s
answer. But his story sounded also that the Anglo’s history was also insignificant in
Quebec City because it is all about the language of the City; the language that
determines the national identity and the public policy that has been drawn by
Francophone’s feathers. Cardinal and Weinstock confirmed on this fact and each
place in Quebec City including public employees were speaking the French language
and were trying hard to translate events to the English language.
Back again to the history; the history in the eighth day of the field trip was narrated in
the underground not on the crust of the river. Under the beautiful image of education
and under books of philosophy, history, and science in Morrin College another story
of racism and oppression was written. The story this time has been written by the
feathers of the medieval age’s victims and slaves. Under the ground we have seen
prisons and scary detention cells. We have also listened to stories of racism, slavery,
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and British soldiers’ miserable lives not just in the Morrin College but also in the
Maison de la decouverte.
The story this time was different. The glory of the past and the herald of the past have
been changed to the horror of the past. The past was scary. Despite the guide’s
justifications of the meaning of justice in this era but he could not change the dark
image of that past that violated all human rights by all means. In the end of the eighth
day of my field trip to Quebec City I was happy that I was not born in that era.
Quebec City in that day gave a lesson that the humanity has accomplished a lot in its
journey from the backwardness to the modernity.
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Log 8: Ninth Day: Tuesday June 4th
, 2013
The ninth Day of the 10 Days – The Lion and the lily- Je Me Souvines
Source of pictures: http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/index.html, http://www.sd71.bc.ca/sd71/edulinks/canada/qbindex.htm
- The Lion and the lily
- Assemblee nationale (Commentary of the Façade – In French)
- Guided tour of the National Assembly
Reading:
- Edited by Lucie K. Morrisset, Luc Noppen and Denis Saint-Jacques Ville imaginaire. Viklle
identitaire. Echos de Quebec.
Imaginary city, City identity, Echoes of Quebec; again to readings and again to
different type of interpretation of the national identification and the fiction of history.
This time the language of readings was in French but the tour inside the national
assembly of Quebec was for the first time so bilingual. The language of the national
assembly, its colours, its paintings, and its design were all combinations of the
French, the British, and the pure Canadian narratives. The philosophy of the
admixture this time was so ironic; the cross with the crown with symbols of
secularism movements with bilingual speeches with bilingual bills and charters; the
rose with the lily with the green colour of the Canadian confederation and the
birthday of Canada. The message of the national assembly of Quebec City was so
compromising to punctuate the Diaspora. The message was logical and consistent
with the conflict between the past and the present.
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Despite the fact that Morrisset, Noppen, and Saint-Jacques were speaking about the
identity of Quebec as a province that the inclusion of Montreal in the story was the
main channel between the past and the history’s identification but Quebec City was
and still the legacy of the past despite historical negotiations and national
compromising messages that were sent by politicians and authors.
The most important question came to my mind that day was about the secularism
movement in the sixtieth; the location of the cross under the crown inside the national
assembly could not justify the story of secularism movements despite the guide’s
justification that it is there as a historical symbol. Its location inside the national
assembly sent a different message which was that the national identity of Quebec City
could not exclude the religion from on its forehead and from in its heart.
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Log 9: Tenth Day: Wednesday June 5th
, 2013
The Tenth Day of the 10 Days – A lot of walking
Source of pictures: http://cdnseed.org/cstas-90th-annual-meeting/, http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image.aspx?f=1&guid=741efb02-7cbb-42b5-b845-dc5a84c21540
- Guided tour of the Parc de l’Artillerie
- Guided tour of the Fortifications of Quebec
- Ruines du Chateau Saint-Louis
The Chateau Saint-Louis, the fortifications of Quebec and the Parc de l’Artillerie
narrated again a portion of the history; the history of the British colony, the battles
again between the British and the French and the history of the first governors of
Quebec City, their style of life, their slaves, and all their ruins. Under the ground was
another story of oppression; Upstairs, Downstairs and the traumatic social classes’
segregation; the sir and the slave. The medieval age’s style of life of first governors of
Quebec City was a clear drama of social oppression but in the same time we could
have seen different ways of economic planning and armour power manifested in the
remnants of that past. Despite my sensitivity to human rights issues I tried to be
objective in my evaluation to the story telling and the historical narrative in this day.
The way they were eating, the way they were preserving their food, the way they
were cooking, and the way they were treating each other and living with each other,
the position of the woman in her family, the position of the man in his family, the
position of children, employees, soldiers and slaves completed the story of that era in
my mind. Each one had a role, each one had a position, and each one had its divided
portion of life determined by a rigorous systematic social regime.
The narrative could have told also the political, economic, social, and militant
connections to the rest of the British Empire. I have gained many lessons from that
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Log 10: Eleventh Day: Thursday June 6th
, 2013
The Eleventh Day of the 10 Days – Living in a World Heritage City
Source of picture: http://www.tripadvisor.ca/Attraction_Review-g1498925-d2021369-Reviews-Musee_Huron_Wendat-
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- The Huron-Wendat community
- The farewell dinner
Reading: Graeme Evans, Living in a World Heritage City.
The consistency between the class readings and our tour inside the Huron-Wendat
Community was great in the last day of our field trip to Quebec City. Living in a
World Heritage City was the main title of that day. Graeme Evans; the professor of
Urban Culture and Design was clear in his message; from his point of view I could
see the impact of the culture heritage on the architecture and the interior design of the
city and on the atonic design of the Huron-Wendat community that reflected in my
opinion the dim light of the indigenous history in Quebec City. The tour inside the
museum of the Huron-Wendat community could not show anything but blurred
primitive monuments and historic scattered collections.
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After a long day of readings, discussions and tours we had to dress up again for the
farewell dinner. I put on a nice dress; I walked to the restaurant with my camera.
Inside the restaurant I remembered that this was the last day of the field trip. I did not
want to miss any moment. I spoke a lot, I laughed a lot, and I took many pictures. I
had steak and French Fries. French again! In Quebec City everything was French
even the dinner was French Fries.
In the last day of my field trip in Quebec City I fell in love with the city. I left the gala
dinner a bit earlier to walk alone and to try to see the walls with a different eye. It was
my last day of the field trip but I promised the walls to go back to reread it more
carefully and more accurately. Ten days were not enough to understand the
mysterious city.
Document modifications: * Le musée, * Le petit séminaire de Québec, * Ricoeur, * Geveviève Désy,
* Morrin Center
---------Ghada Mohamed --- 100255620 --- Ottawa in June 20th
, 2013
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