Paradis of Temagami

Résumé du livre

"Notorious, revolutionary and with a blazing zeal to see the Northland colonized, Paradis has left his mark from Temiskaming up to the Porcupine. Recognized or not, we still live with his influence and his controversial views on land and river management. Charles Paradis was born in Kamouraska, Que., in 1848. He completed his studies at the seminary in Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière and headed to Ottawa where he taught art. He was ordained in 1881 and was soon sent to the Temiskaming area as a member of the Oblate Congregation, at the express request of Monseigneur Duhamel, archbishop of Ottawa. The Roman Catholic Bishops at that time were eager to see the area developed and put under the plow. They had, after all, built a small mission opposite Fort Temiskaming in 1863 and started a farm on the site, which was expanded to the Quebec side at Baie des Pères (later renamed Ville Marie), just above the fort....