Guest Speaker Hugues Théorêt ,  Author of La Patente l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, le dernier bastion du Canada français Like the Irish Catholics, with the Knights of Columbus, and the English Protestants, with their Masonic Lodges and the Orange Order,  French Canada had its own secret society: the Ordre de Jacques-Cartier. Commonly called "La Patente", the...

Guest Speaker Dominique Lajoie,   Historian, Lecturer In Ottawa, just beside the Rideau Canal locks that empty into the Ottawa River, lies an architectural treasure. For more than a century, it has opened its doors to the rich and famous, politicians and even the broadcast offices of CBC Radio. If the walls of the Château Laurier...

Inaugural presentation of a French-language series of conferences Guest Speaker: Hugues Théorêt ,  Author of La Patente l'Ordre de Jacques-Cartier, le dernier bastion du Canada français Like the Irish Catholics, with the Knights of Columbus, and the English Protestants, with their Masonic Lodges and the Orange Order,  French Canada had its own secret society: the...