Chapelle des Ursulines, Trois-Rivieres, Quebec, Canada

Chapelle des Ursulines, part of the Monastere des Ursulines, begun 1699, and the Musee des Ursulines, originally a school, the Ecole des Ursulines, on the Rue des Ursulines, an old road built in 1650, in Trois-Rivieres, Mauricie, on the Chemin du Roi, Quebec, Canada. The Ursuline nuns arrived in Trois-Rivieres in 1697 to provide the town with a school and a hospital. The Chemin du Roy or King's Highway is a historic road along the Saint Lawrence river built 1731-37, connecting communities between Quebec City and Montreal. Picture by Manuel Cohen

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Chapelle des Ursulines, part of the Monastere des Ursulines, begun 1699, and the Musee des Ursulines, originally a school, the Ecole des Ursulines, on the Rue des Ursulines, an old road built in 1650, in Trois-Rivieres, Mauricie, on the Chemin du Roi, Quebec, Canada. The Ursuline nuns arrived in Trois-Rivieres in 1697 to provide the town with a school and a hospital. The Chemin du Roy or King's Highway is a historic road along the Saint Lawrence river built 1731-37, connecting communities between Quebec City and Montreal. Picture by Manuel Cohen