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The church of Saint-Joseph de Deschambault (769 words) |
 | The parish of Saint-Joseph de Deschambault is situated on the north shore of the Saint Lawrence river between Québec and Trois-Rivières. |
| In Deschambault the wall at the end of the sacristy is flat but the corners are rounded. |
| This layout was originally used at the end of the 18th century in the Anglican Cathedral of Québec and in Saint-Denis-sur-Richelieu although an elevation with a double storey of windows and without a side gallery is to be found from the middle of the century at Sainte-Famille de Cap-Santé. |
| The 1837-38 Patriot War (2866 words) |
| May 23: Montreal, Quebec - The Permanent Central Committee of the Patriotes passes a resolution demanding free trade with the United States; led by Louis-Joseph Papineau, the PCC asks for a boycott of all taxable British imports, as a way of starving the government of funds. |
| November 16: Quebec, Quebec - Governor Gosford issues warrants for the arrest of 26 Patriote leaders on charges of high treason, after the Rebellion of 1837's first skirmish at Longueuil; Papineau and Wolfred Nelson among those named; only five leaders will be captured. |
| November 22: Montreal, Quebec - Charles Gore leaves Montreal for Sorel on the steamboat Saint George with 500 men; his plan is to meet up with Wetherall at St-Charles, and move with a combined force of 2,000 Waterloo veterans against the Patriotes in the Richelieu Valley. |
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