Quebec Seminary
Opened 1668, in a house belonging to the widow of
Guillaume Couillard, at the entrance to the governor's garden.
Corner-stone of the first separate building laid in 1678; enlarged,
1701; restored and enlarged after the fire of 1866. =Index=: (Count Frontenac era)
Establishment of, 48. (Bishop Laval era) Founded by Laval, 10, 47-50; empowered to
collect tithes, 50; Laval transfers his personal income to, 56;
affiliated with Foreign Missions of Paris, 57, 140; buildings erected
for, 58; total destruction of, by fire, 58, 240; Saint-Vallier's high
opinion of, 203; sends missionaries to Louisiana, 208; Saint-Vallier
makes important changes in, 236; destroyed a second time by fire, 241.
See also Laval University. =Bib.=: Doughty, Cradle of New France.