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Mixing Bowls and Lace Curtains
THE MODERN HOUSEHOLDER‘S list for “cheap kitchen furniture” in 1872 included a few of the items on display in the Moss Cottage kitchen: one deal table (deal was a name for a cheap wood, often a...
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Moss Cottage Bedroom
Bedrooms were usually small and dimly lit, with a bed, storage chests for clothes, a screen to dress behind, and sometimes a washstand and a vanity. Everyone folded clothes, even dresses, for storage...
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Gilded Age
These images are the result of a local designer’s vision arising from a visit to the Villa Marco Polo Inn, located in the historic neighbourhood of Rockland, in Victoria BC. She (Jennifer) immediately...
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Gilded Age – 2
Please enjoy the second installment of the Gilded Age series. Return to portrait. Return to fashion.
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Boiler Room at the Gravelbourg Elementary School
The former convent school, Couvent Jésus Marie, still boasts its original layout and appearance. Up until a few days ago, it was still used as an elementary school for children in the Gravelbourg area....
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Old Fashioned School Room
This old fashioned school room is set up in one of the old classrooms in the Gravelbourg Elementary School, formerly known as Le Couvent Jésus-Marie. The types of desks set up in the classroom are...
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In the Gravelbourg Elementary School Basement
These images were shot in the basement of the former Couvent Jésus Marie, also known as the Gravelbourg Elementary School. My earliest memories of this school are of our kindergarten class, which was...
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Gravelbourg Elementary School Stairs and Windows
After lining up in single file after recess, the students would march up the stairs in silence to their classrooms. While I attended the elementary school, the teacher’s stairs were strictly...
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Gravelbourg Elementary School Main Entrance
The former Couvent Jésus Marie was designed by a prominent French Canadian architect, J.E. Fortin. The school’s exterior and interior illustrate Classical Revival influences exemplified in its symmetry...
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Couvent Jésus Marie Library
Couvent Jésus-Marie is believed to be the largest and most architecturally ambitious convent school erected in the Franco-Catholic colonies; few of these schools in Western Canada, if any, approach its...
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