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Georgiana Martineau Collection
Collection
1 cm of textual records.
Gloriana Jeanne Martineau was born on May 29, 1898, in Alfred, Prescott, Ontario.
She worked with the French Missions in Ontario and wrote many essays on the topic of French Canadians and the church. In 1947, she earned her M.A. in English from McGill University, where she completed a thesis titled "La survivance française dans les comtés de Prescott et Russell." McGill University offers the Glorianna Martineau Fellowship, established in 1988 by the estate of the late Glorianna Martineau.
She died in 1986 and is buried in Caledon, Peel Regional Municipality, Ontario.
The collection consists of a printed 24-page pamphlet titled "Notre problème à nous Canadiens français." It also includes six typewritten essays, "Notre problème à nous Canadiens français"(7 leaves); "Les voeux de religion sont contraires à l'écriture sainte" (17 leaves); "Satan, devil & demons" (13 leaves); "Les communautés religieuses entravent le progres spirituel et temporel" (8 leaves); "Réflexions mixtes" (14 leaves), and "La saine psychologie condamne le voeux de religion" (10 leaves).
Also described in the McGill Libraries catalogue.
Martineau's M.A. thesis titled "La survivance française dans les comtés de Prescott et Russell" is available here: http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=125405
Comprises 1 folder.