Chapelle des Ursulines, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada
Chapelle des Ursulines, part of the Monastere des Ursulines, begun 1699, and the Musee des Ursulines, originally a school, the Ecole des Ursulines, on the Rue des Ursulines, an old road built in 1650, in Trois-Rivieres, Mauricie, on the Chemin du Roi, Quebec, Canada. The Ursuline nuns arrived in Trois-Rivieres in 1697 to provide the town with a school and a hospital. The Chemin du Roy or King's Highway is a historic road along the Saint Lawrence river built 1731-37, connecting communities between Quebec City and Montreal. Picture by Manuel Cohen
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13441360
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45133536
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7087px x 4534px
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Credit
Manuel Cohen / Mary Evans
Source
Photograph by Manuel Cohen
