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Economic Engine

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax

With hundreds of men and some 175 horses, the garrison had a gargantuan appetite for wood, hay, grain, corn, and beef. Unable to meet the requirements of the post through any direct federal supply system, the War Department issued contracts to civilian suppliers offering the lowest bids. For years, this system made Fort Ridgely the best market in the Minnesota River valley for farmers and businessmen.

The post also provided much-appreciated services to the community. The army surgeons treated and sold medicines to area residents. Mail could be picked up or dropped off at the fort. Groceries and a variety of goods could be purchased at the sutler's store. Local farmers could use the post's slaughterhouse (located one mile from Ridgely) and buy lumber from the post's sawmill.

Getting Here

From 1853 to 1856, steamboats were the principal mode of transportation for military personnel and supplies going to and from Fort Ridgely. The presence of the post and increasing white settlement led Congress to improve and build new military roads in the territory. By 1858, land routes had mostly replaced the water routes to the fort.

Minnesota Historical Society
Fort Ridgely


(Forts, Castles • Industry & Commerce • Roads & Vehicles) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Samuel De Champlain

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Massachusetts, Barnstable County, Chatham
The First White Man on these Shores Landed Here October 1606

(Exploration) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Franco-Texan Land Company Building

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Texas, Parker County, Weatherford
In the late 19th century, this building was a center for political and economic life for the town of Weatherford and for Parker County. It was built around 1870. James Robertson Couts and John A. Fain established the first bank west of Dallas in this building, after Couts made a fortune selling cattle out west. Couts operated the bank with several partners, including Henry Warren, until 1877. Warren, a freighting contractor and thoroughbred stockbreeder, had previously been associated with the Warren Freight Train Massacre of 1871.

Couts and Warren dissolved their professional relationship in 1877 and sold the building to Samuel Willis Tucker Lanham, later governor of Texas (1903-1907). Lanham practiced law with other attorneys, such as A.J. Hood Sr., in second story offices. During the 1890s, the structure served as the offices for the troubled Franco-Texan Land Company, headed by Hood. The company was integral in the development of Texas land between Weatherford and El Paso along the Texas and Pacific Railway corridor. During this period the safe, from the Fidelity and Safe Deposit Company, was installed at the rear of the building. S.W.T. Lanham sold the property in 1906 to William Boone.

The Franco-Texan Land Company Building, previously known as the Couts Building and the Western Union Building, is an example of a typical vernacular storefront commercial building found in Texas during the last quarter of the 19th century. The two-story masonry fronted building features a brick exterior, stone string courses, french doors with fanlight transoms, and double-hung windows.Recorded Texas Historic Landmark 2012
Marker is property of the State of Texas


(Industry & Commerce) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Nature's Destruction

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Wyoming, Big Horn County, near Shell
In June 1959, a tornado roared over the south rim of the canyon directly before you. Its path was along Granite Creek to your left and through what used to be Granite Creek Campground. One person was killed. The twister ripped up timber and laid it out in the pattern you see now.

While tornadoes usually occur on the plains, several have visited the Big Horn Mountains. Blowing down mountain timber at 10,000 feet above sea level, these tornadoes are among the highest on record. The Forest Service salvaged part of the downed timber, but the steepness made it difficult to retrieve trees from the upper slopes. A road at the bottom of the blowdown area enabled some clearing and reseeding. Most of the scar has revegetated naturally.

(Environment • Horticulture & Forestry) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Sand Park Cemetery

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Montana, Missoula County, near Bonner
Who was Frank Hamilton? No one really knows. Simple grave markers pay a humble tribute to the five miners buried at the Sand Park Cemetery between 1898 and 1914. Little more is known than their names and year of death. Most of the other hard-rock-era miners who had family and means chose to be buried in "consecrated ground" in metropolitan areas like Missoula and Deer Lodge.

You're invited to walk across the road and spend a quiet moment at their graves. We can only surmise that these men died far from family in their quest for gold. They rest close to the source of their dreams of wealth, here in the heart of the Garnet Mountains.

They Hailed From Coloma
The nearby ghost town of Coloma (1895-1908) once hustled with fortune seekers, including some of the minders who rest in this cemetery. They probably bought grub at the company store and took a turn or two in one of Coloma's saloons.

(Left Inset)
"Frank Hamilton died last Tuesday and was buried in the Coloma Cemetery on Thursday, under the auspices of the Garnet Miners Union. Deceased was about 35 years of age, but nothing is known of his antecedents, further than that. He was born in Colorado, presumably at Canon City."
- Drummond Call, Friday, October 6, 1905

(Photo Caption)
Remnants like this old pair of boots remind us of the hard left these early miners had. Adequate shelter and clothing were luxurious, and accidents, illness and lack of doctors often meant a much short lifespan.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Madison Limestone and the Garnet Mountains

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Montana, Granite County, near Drummond
About 350 million years ago, much of Montana was submerged under a shallow sea. Billions of tiny marine creatures thrived in the water and when they died their bodies settled into the muck on the sea bed. After hundreds of millions of years of accumulation and many more millions of years it metamorphosed into the pale gray rocks that known today as Madison Limestone. The limestone is common throughout Montana, eastern Idaho, northern Wyoming, and in the Dakotas. In Montana, the limestone beds are from 1,000 to 2,000 feet thick in places. Because Madison Limestone resists weathering and erosion much better than most other kinds of rocks, it forms many of the spectacular cliffs and dramatic ridges that make Montana such a scenic place to drive through. A magnificent outcrop of Madison Limestone is visible on the north side of Interstate 90 just a few miles east of this rest area. The limestone pinnacles were exposed when the soil around them eroded away, creating the dramatic canyon along the Clark Fork River. The red streaks visible on the rocks and soil is iron oxide.

About 75 million years ago molten rock intruded the area near the crest of the Garnet Range, seven miles north of this rest area. Northwest-trending faults and rock layers channeled mineral-rich fluids from the intrusion into Cambrian and Precambrian rocks to form three principal gold veins and numerous smaller, gold-bearing zones. Prospectors discovered gold placers at the mouth of Bear Gulch, about a mile northeast of the rest area in 1865; discoveries in other drainages of the Garnet Range soon followed. Although gold-bearing veins were discovered in 1866, the technology was not readily available to work them. By 1896, however, numerous underground mines were producing gold, silver, and copper. In 1898, more than 1,000 people lived in the town of Garnet to support the miners living in the surrounding area.


Geo-Facts:
  • Where the magma contacted the Madison Limestone, it caused a chemical reaction called a skarn that formed the garnets found in the range.
  • The Garnet area placer mines produced approximately 60,000 ounces of gold, as did the lode mines. Drilling has revealed gold placer reserves under the current rest area, and resources of several hundred thousand ounces of gold still remain in the Garnet Range.
  • A mining camp called Beartown was located in a narrow gulch near here. Between 1865 and 1869, miners recovered $30 million in gold and silver from Bear Gulch. As many as 7,000 people lived in camp during its heyday.

Geo-Activity:
  • What are some organisms you know of today that are similar to marine organisms whose shells and bodies accumulated into what we now today as Madison limestone? Remember, these creatures lived when much of Montana was on the floor of a tropical sea.


(Environment • Industry & Commerce • Settlements & Settlers) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Four Days From Fort Snelling

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Minnesota, Nicollet County, near Fairfax

The steamer West Newton left St. Paul on April 26, 1853, transporting the first soldiers to the site of the new post. It took four days to get from Fort Snelling to Fort Ridgely. John P. Owens, passenger and editor of The Minnesotian, noted that the river serpentine so much that he expected to find it "tied up in a double bow knot." Owens described crowded conditions on the boat:

Soldiers and soldiers' wives and soldiers' stores and soldiers' equipment—soldiers' cattle and soldiers' dogs are huddled together and strewn about the boat.

Building Fort Ridgely

Once they arrived at the fort's site, the soldiers and some hired civilians cleared the land, milled wood, and quarried stone for the buildings. Originally all the fort's buildings were to be made of local granite. Because of time and cost, however, only two buildings—the barracks and the commissary—were actually granite. The rest were made of wood. The workers found these granite boulders on the prairie and used them as foundation stones.

Minnesota Historical Society
Fort Ridgely


(Forts, Castles • Waterways & Vessels) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Fort Nez Perce

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Washington, Walla Walla County, Wallula


Here Stood Fort Nez Perce
Also Called
Fort Walla Walla
Fur Trading Post of
Hudson's Bay Company
1818 — 1856

(Forts, Castles • Industry & Commerce • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Kootenai River

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Montana, Lincoln County, near Troy
The river is named for the Kootenai tribe that lived and hunted in this part of Montana and adjoining territory in Idaho and Canada. They were settled south of Flathead Lake in 1855 with the Salish on the Flathead Reservation.
     They were friendly with neighboring mountain tribes but suffered frequently from the incursions of their bitter enemies the Blackfeet, who came across the Continental Divide from the plains on horse stealing and scalp raising expeditions.
     First white men in here were trappers and traders for British fur companies as early as 1809. Placer discoveries were made and mining operations commenced about sixty years later.

(Industry & Commerce • Native Americans) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Battle Tactics

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Minnesota, Renville County, near Morton

"It was concluded to surround the camp that night and attack it at daylight. We felt sure we could capture it."
                                                Wamditanka
After the Dakota scouts spotted Anderson's men crossing the prairie, they were sent "to follow the movements of the soldiers, creeping across the prairie like so many ants," Wamditanka said. When the scouts reported that the U.S. soldiers were camped near Birch Coulee, the Dakota forces planned their attack. About 200 men, led by Wamditanka, Mankato, Zitkadaska, and Hushasha, moved in to surround the camp.

The Best We Could

Wamditanka did not support the Dakota decision to fight a war that he felt was a lost cause. "I did not have a very large band—not more than thirty or forty fighting men," he said. "Most of them were not for the war at first.... I said to my men that I would lead them into the war and we would all act like brave Dakotas and do the best we could."

Minnesota Historical Society
Birch Coulee Battlefield


(Wars, US Indian) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Veterans Memorial

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Kansas, Crawford County, Frontenac


To show our appreciation to the U.S. military men and women, past, present and future, for their sacrifices, dedication and service to our country.

(Cemeteries & Burial Sites • Patriots & Patriotism • War, Vietnam • War, World II) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Ishmon Bracey

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Mississippi, Hinds County, Jackson

~Front~
One of the earliest blues musicians from Mississippi to make recordings, Ishmon Bracey (1899-1970) is buried in the nearby Willow Park Cemetery. In the 1920s and '30s Bracey was a leading bluesman in the Jackson area and performed with prominent artists including Tommy Johnson, Rube Lacy, and Charlie McCoy. In the early '50s Bracey became an ordained minister and left the blues behind.

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Bracey was born in Byram, about ten miles south of Jackson, in January 1899, according to census records. He learned guitar from locals Louis Cooper and Lee Jones and moved to Jackson in the late 1920s after encountering Tommy Johnson, one of Mississippi’s most prominent bluesmen, in Johnson’s longtime home of Crystal Springs. Bracey soon became one of the most popular musicians in the Jackson area’s vital blues scene, which consisted largely of musicians who were likewise born in small communities in the area. These included Johnson, his brothers LeDell, Clarence, and Mager, and R. D. “Peg Leg Sam” Norwood of Crystal Springs; Rubin Lacy, Shirley Griffith, John Henry “Bubba” Brown, “Son” Spand , and brothers Luther and Percy Huff, all of Rankin County; brothers Joe and Charlie McCoy of Raymond; Johnnie Temple of Canton; Lucien “Slim” Duckett of Tylertown; and, from Bolton, Walter Vinson, Caldwell “Mississippi” Bracy, and the Chatmon family (brothers Bo, Harry, Lonnie, and several others).

Jackson blues in the 1920s had a lighter feel than its counterpart in the Delta and sometimes featured the mandolin and the fiddle. Bracey and other musicians often played at dances for both black and white audiences, performing waltzes and ragtime numbers, and otherwise serenaded passersby on the busy streets of Jackson. Bracey’s music came to broader attention after he auditioned for recording agent H. C. Speir, who operated a furniture store on North Farish Street. Speir arranged for Bracey and Tommy Johnson to make their debut recordings at a session for Victor in Memphis in February of 1928. At that session and another for Victor later that year, Bracey was accompanied on guitar and mandolin by Charlie McCoy. Bracey recorded in more of a jazz mode in late 1929 and early 1930 for the Paramount label in Grafton, Wisconsin, backed by the New Orleans Nehi Boys (Charlie Taylor on piano and “Kid” Ernest Moliere on clarinet, an instrument rarely heard on Mississippi blues recordings). Bracey’s musical breadth is suggested in the 1930 census, where his occupation is listed as a musician in a “hotel orchestra.”

By the mid-‘30s many of the musicians in Bracey’s circle had left the area, and his musical partnership with Tommy Johnson ended. In later city directories he is listed as a laborer or painter. In 1963, when blues researcher Gayle Dean Wardlow met and interviewed him in Jackson, Bracey had been a Baptist minister for over a decade, and, although he would no longer play blues, he provided important information on the early blues scene in Jackson. He died on Feb. 12, 1970.

(African Americans • Arts, Letters, Music • Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 7 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Calvert Hills: A National Register Historic District

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Maryland, Prince George's County, College Park

The Calvert Hills neighborhood, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in December of 2003, is an example of the residential development that occurred on the outskirts of Washington, D.C. during the early 20th Century. Calvert Hills developed on rural property that was historically part of the Calvert family’s Rossborough Farm and Riversdale Plantation. The 428-acre Rossborough Farm purchased by George Calvert in 1822, comprised a large portion of the family’s vast estate, which extended south to Bladensburg and included present-day Calvert Hills.

The suburban community, which is framed by major transportation corridors – Baltimore Avenue (U.S. Route 1) to the west and the WMATA Metrorail/B&O Railroad to the east – developed further with the advent of the automobile and the streetcar that provided direct access to Washington, D.C. The land was subdivided in response to the expanding population, the development of the nearby Maryland Agricultural College (now the University of Maryland at College Park), and the College Park Airport. Calvert Hills was home to aviators and employees of the College Park Airport – Wilbur Wright is believed to have leased a room in a boarding house on Bowdoin Avenue in the early 1900s.

The first portion of the neighborhood was subdivided in 1907 and re-subdivided in 1921, and and enlarged further, from 1928 through the 1940s. The many additions were joined as the neighborhood of Calvert Hills in recognition of the prominent Calvert family and incorporated as part of the City of College Park in 1945.

Calvert Hills is defined by a variety of building types ranging from large scale dwellings to smaller bungalows. Architectural styles presented in Calvert Hills illustrate modest examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Craftsman and Tudor Revival styles. The community is primarily comprised of single-family houses, supported along the borders by apartment buildings, a school and post office.

Illustration captions:

The Sides Map of 1853 shows the “Riversdale Desmense,” including the future Calvert Hills Area. The brick barn, highlighted in the north-central portion of the map, is the Calvert Barn, also known as the “Old Parish House.” Image courtesy of the University of Maryland, Marylandia Collection

Advertisement for homes in the Calvert Hills neighborhood that features a house built in 1912 on Guilford Road. Image courtesy of Bob & Kathy Baer

Charles Benedict Calvert inherited Rossborough Farm upon the death of his parents Rosalie and George Calvert. He maintained the Calvert land and subsequently purchased his sibling’s interests in the property. Image courtesy of Prince George’s County Historical Society Fordham Road on a snowy day in the 1950s. Image courtesy of Manuel and Gladys Palau

(Education • Political Subdivisions • Railroads & Streetcars) Includes location, directions, 3 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

The Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC)

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British Columbia, Esquimalt
Canadian Women's Army Corps (CWAC) Women's service in the military during the Second World War challenged the tradition of all-male armed forces. Between 1941 and 1946, close to 22,000 volunteers enlisted in the CWAC and were posted to bases at home and abroad. Working in such unconventional settings transformed their life and ambitions. Joan Kennedy, later its commander, opened the first CWAC office on the Esquimalt base on 29 August 1941. The Corps contributed to Allied victory, paved the way for future generations of Canadian service women and raised questions about the equality of women in the civilian world.

Corps auxiliaire féminin de l'aviation Canadienne Le service militaire des femmes pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale a défié la tradition des forces armées jusqu'alors essentiellement masculines. Entre 1941 et 1946, près de 17 000 femmes s'enrôlèrent dans l'Aviation royale et investirent 65 métiers non reliés au combat, ici à Calgary, ailleurs au Canada et à l'étranger. Leur travail et leur succès dans ces secteurs allaient transformer leurs vies et leurs ambitions, tout en contribuant remarquablement autant à la victoire des Alliés qu'à l'avancement de la cause des femmes dans la vie militaire et civile.

(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Royal Theatre

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British Columbia, Victoria
Constructed in 1912-1913 during the Victoria building boom, this structure originally opened as the Royal Victoria Theatre, owned by a group of local entrepreneurs. Theatres of this type, presenting live dramatic, musical and vaudeville performances, were constructed across Canada between 1913 and 1930. While they were among the grandest theatres ever built in this country, few now exist. This theatre's impressive bricK and terra cotta facade and ornate classically-inspired interior have provided an appropriate setting for generations of events central to the social and cultural life of Victoria.

Ce théâtre, d'abord appelé Royal Victoria, fut construit en 1912-1913, durant une période de développement accéléré. Il appartenait à un groupe d'entrepreneurs locaux. Des théâtres de ce genre, où l'on présentait des oeuvres dramatiques, des séances musicales et des spectacles de vaudeville, virent le jour un peu partout au Canada entre 1913 et 1930. Ils comptaient parmi les plus grandioses jamas construits au pays, mais il en resté très peu d'exemples aujourd'hui. Celui-ci, avec son impressionnante façade de brique et de terre cuite et son intérieur d'inspiration classique très orné, a fourni un cadre approprié aux manifestations de la vie sociale et culturelle de Victoria pendant plusieurs générations.

(Entertainment) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Victoria-Esquimalt Fortifications

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British Columbia, Colwood
From 1878 to 1956 coast artillery installations protected the city of Victoria and the naval base at Esquimalt. Temporary batteries were constructed in response to the Anglo-Russian crisis of 1878, and in the 1890s Canada negotiated with Great Britain for the building of a series of permanent defences to be manned by British troops. Canada took control of these fortifications in 1906 and, by the end of the Second World War, they had been rebuilt and greatly expanded. They were declared obsolete in 1956.

De 1878 à 1956, des batteries côtières protégèrent la villa de Victoria et la base navale d'Esquimalt. Face à la crise anglo-russe de 1878, on aménagea des batteries temporaires et, dans les années 1890, le Canada négocia avec la Grande-Bretagne la construction de fortifications permanentes défendues par une garnison britannique. Le Canada prit ces fortifications en charge en 1906, puis les reconstruisit et les agrandit considérablement avant la fin de la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Elles furent déclarées désuètes en 1956.

(Forts, Castles) Includes location, directions, 1 photo, GPS coordinates, map.

Modeste Demers

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British Columbia, Victoria
Born near Levis, Demers was trained at the Seminary of Quebec, ordained in 1836 and sent in 1838 as a missionary to the Columbia. His ministry extended from the interior of British Columbia to Oregon. First pastor of St. John's Church of Oregon City, he was appointed in 1846 first Bishop of Vancouver Island with responsibility for New Caledonia and the Queen Charlotte Islands. In the following decades Bishop Demers oversaw the transition of his diocese from the fur trade era to that of a settled colony. By the time of his death in Victoria, the territory in which he had laboured was Canada's sixth province.

Né près de Lévis (Québec) Modeste Demers fréquenta le séminaire de Québec où il fut ordonné prêtre en 1836. Premier missionnaire de la Colombie en 1838, il étendit son apostolat depuis la Colombie jusqu'en Orégon. Premier cure de Saint-Jean (Oregon City), il fut nommé en 1846 évêque du nouveau diocèse de l'île de Vancouver qui incluait alors la Nouvelle Calédonie et les îles de la Reine-Charlotte. Mgr Demers fut témoin de la transformation du territoire de son diocèse en une colonie établie. A sa mort, le pays où il avait oeuvré pendant trente ans était devenu la sixième province canadianne.

(Churches, Etc. • Notable Persons) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

Chinese Cemetery

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British Columbia, Oak Bay
This place, chosen by the Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association in 1903 for its harmonized elements of Nature expressing the principles of "feng shui", is a significant legacy of the first Canadians of Chinese origin. Traditionally it was a sanctuary of temporary repose before final interment in China, a pattern which reflected the early aspirations of these immigrants to return to their homeland. After the Sino-Japanese war broke out in 1937, it was no longer possible to ship remains back to China. In 1961, bones from across Canada were finally laid to rest here.

Cet endroit, choisi en 1903 par la Chinese Consolidated Benevolent Association pour ses éléments naturels harmonisés selon les principes du «feng shui», est un legs important des premiers Canadiens d'origine chinoise. Ce sanctuaire temporaire servait avant l'inhumation définitive en Chine, permettant ainsi à plusieurs de réaliser leur espoir de retourner dans la mère-patrie. Le déclenchement de la guerre sino-japonaise en 1937 empêcha l'envoi des dépouilles en Chine. En 1961, les restes disséminés un peu partout au Canada trouvèrent ici leur dernier repos.

(Asian Americans • Cemeteries & Burial Sites) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Ann's Academy

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British Columbia, Victoria
For over a century, St. Ann's played an important role in the educational life of Western Canada. It served as the regional motherhouse for the Sisters of St. Ann, the major female Roman Catholic teaching and nursing order in British Columbia, which had opened its first school on the site in 1858. Inspired by convent designs in the Sisters' native Quebec, the Academy was built in three stages between 1871 and 1910. Among its notable features is the chapel, built as Victoria's first Roman Catholic church in 1858 and later attached to the rear of the convent. St. Ann's and its gardens are among Victoria's most venerable landmarks.

Pendant plus d'un siècle, l'académie St. Ann joua un rôle éducatif important dans l'Ouest du Canada. Elle servit de maison mère régionale des Sœurs de Sainte-Anne, principal ordre catholique d'enseignantes et d'infirmières de la Colombie-Britannique, qui avait ouvert sa première école ici, en 1858. Inspirée des couvents du Québec, région d'origine des Sœurs, l'académie fut construite en trois étapes entre 1871 et 1910. La chapelle, première église catholique de Victoria, fut bâtie en 1858 et attachée par la suite à l'arrière du couvent. L'académie et ses jardins comptent parmi les sites les plus vénérables de la ville.

(Churches, Etc. • Education) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.

St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral

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British Columbia, Victoria
Soaring skywards with its bold array of coloured brick, stone and slate, St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Cathedral displays the confident spirituality that characterizes the best religious architecture of the High Victorian Gothic style. Designed in 1892 by Perrault and Mesnard of Montréal, St. Andrew's was inspired by the medieval cathedrals of Europe, whose emphatic verticality and picturesque asymmetry greatly appealed to 19th-century Roman Catholic taste. The wall patterns, created by combining building materials of different colours, are a distinctive feature of the mature phase of the Gothic Revival style.

Pointant vers le ciel son ensemble audacieux et coloré de briques, de pierres et d'ardoises, la cathédrale catholique St. Andrew témoigne de la spiritualité confiante propre à la meilleure architecture religieuse de style néo-gothique de l'apogée victorien. Conçue en 1892 par Perrault et Mesnard, de Montréal, elle s'inspire des cathédrales de l'Europe médiévale, dont la verticalité hardie et l'asymétrie pittoresque plaisaient tant aux catholiques du XIXe siècle. Les décorations murales, créées par des matériaux de couleurs différentes, sont également typiques de la période de maturité du néo-gothique.

(Churches, Etc.) Includes location, directions, 2 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
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