Wednesday, October 21, 2020

Legacies

A reminder to members of City Daily Photo: the theme day for the first of November is Kindness.

Carrying on with this visit to the Museum of History. Here we have furnishings of the New France era.


This is a portrait of Charles de la Boische, Marquis de Beauharnois, the Governor General of New France from 1726-1747. It was painted around 1748 by Robert Levrac-Tournieres.


The church played a big role in life in New France.


The women who came to New France to help bring the colony along left their own legacy. Such is the case with a large sculpture in this area that displays just a few generations of descendants of one woman, Catherine Moitie.


This is what the sculpture itself looks like, each line rising up from the base representing her descendants. As productive as she was, her family line endures today.


This clock, dating to the 1700s, belonged to the Baron of Longeuil.


For today I leave off with these various household goods of New France.

24 comments:

  1. Hello,
    The furnishings, household goods and the sculptures are all lovely exhibits. Take care, enjoy your day!

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  2. ...legacies, some are good and some are bad.

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  3. What a nice collection of exhibits and portraits. Thank you for sharing them.

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  4. I love such displays as that first one.

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  5. It is amazing that things like that clock survived so well through all of the changes in the country.

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  6. Okay now, expected to have 11 children places a new looks at Canada's early history.

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  7. When I visited the museum , it was interesting to see wooden carved church art.

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  8. Definitely stylish.. the sculpture is amazing William ✨

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  9. I'm very fond of things that show how people lived in their homes and areas. This will be fun to follow.

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  10. @Eileen: thank you!

    @Tom: that's true.

    @DJan: you're welcome.

    @Marie: so do I.

    @RedPat: and it's a wonderful clock.

    @Maywyn: that's a lot of kids.

    @Red: I thought so as well.

    @Sharon: it is, yes.

    @Grace: I think so too. Very modern, but it makes its point.

    @Lady Fi: indeed.

    @Jeanie: there's a good deal of the everyday sort of objects in this area.

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  11. Nice displays of the old furnishings and household goods.

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  12. Beautiful displays, I love the old clock.

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  13. I was going to say it´s interesting how much love to detail they put in in these rather hard times, but blogger threw me out... Maybe now, blogger?

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  14. Wonderful historical furniture displays photos ~^_^

    Live each moment with love,

    A ShutterBug Explores,
    aka (A Creative Harbor)

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  15. @Anita: thanks!

    @Jan: I think so too.

    @Bill: I do too.

    @Iris: I've been having issues with blogger since the changeover. Sometimes it refuses to let me leave a comment.

    @Carol: thank you.

    @Marleen: it is, yes.

    @Revrunner: that it is.

    @Jennifer: I agree.

    @Magiceye: me too.

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  16. I do like that clock ...

    All the best Jan

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