We won’t bury the lede: Quebec City’s Morrin Centre might be the only library you’ll ever visit that also has a dungeon.
I won’t bury the lede: Quebec City’s Morrin Centre might be the only library you’ll ever visit that also has a dungeon. Okay, technically it’s a cell—a vestige of a time back in the early 1800s when the building served as the first municipal jail in the city. But its barred windows, iron floor rings, and graffiti from former inmates give the dark room a decidedly medieval vibe, one that makes most visitors extremely uncomfortable.
What they created was an educational mixed bag. Some rooms were used by the local Masonic Temple. Pastors for the Presbyterian Church were also educated onsite. And in a shocking first, in affiliation with McGill University Montreal, it was a place where women could receive a degree in chemistry. When there weren’t enough students, the classes were made co-ed, also mildly scandalous for the era.
Today, the Morrin Centre is the oldest English learning society in Canada, and the only English library in the city. Impressive, given that according to
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