Celebrating St. Jean Baptiste Day.

From: Canadian Speeches | Date: June 1, 1996 | Copyright information

Quebecers have been energetically celebrating St. Jean Baptiste Day with enthusiasm for 164 years, passionately promoting French-Canadian nationalism. Excerpts from two Quebec newspapers describe how it was celebrated in an earlier era.

From The Morning Chronicle, Quebec City, June 25, 1873.

Yesterday the festival of Saint Jean Baptiste, the patron saint of the French Canadian population, was celebrated with due honors, and the day was practically a holiday throughout the town. About eight o'clock in the morning, the St. Jean Baptiste Society in its various sections, the ...

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