The Tin Flute
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The Tin Flute is the first novel by Canadian author Gabrielle Roy and a classic of Canadian fiction. Imbued with Roy's brand of compassion and understanding, this story focuses on a family in the Sain
First English-language edition
Gabrielle Roy in 1945 with boys from Saint-Henri, the working-class neighbourhood of Montreal where The Tin Flute takes place.
The wedge house of the novel
Quiet Revolution
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The Quiet Revolution was a period of socio-political and socio-cultural transformation in French Canada, particularly in Quebec, following the 1960 Quebec general election. This period was marked by t
The Tin Flute
…Montreal. The novel caused many Quebecers to take a hard look at themselves and is regarded as the novel that helped lay the foundation for Quebec's Quiet Revolution of the 1960s. The original French version won Roy the prestigious Prix Femina in 1947. Published in English as The Tin Flute in 1947, the book also won…
The hill leading to Place d'Armes in Montreal, an important historic site of French Canada
"Maîtres chez nous" ('Masters in Our Own Home') was the electoral slogan of the Liberal Party during the 1962 election.
Université du Québec à Montréal
Hydro-Québec's Jean-Lesage generating station, formerly known as Manic-2, built between 1961 and 1965.