Morrin Centre
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Contact Morrin Centre
| Address : | 44 Chau. des Écossais, Quebec City, Quebec G1R 4H3, Canada |
| Phone : | 📞 +8997 |
| Website : | http://www.morrin.org/ |
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| Description : | Former city prison, built in 1808, hosting English-language culture & arts programs & tours. |
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Kermit Felt on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This review is only on the library.
The section that house the library is small but the space is very well used. The library is cozy, comfortable and very welcoming. It’s a space that any bibliophile will love.
Friendly staff, wonderful space. Check it out.
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Deirdre Piggott on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Found this while walking around Old Quebec so i stopped in. Very glad i did, fascinating tour, very knowledgeable woman giving tour. It’s the old jail and library that later became an university. So they have different rooms set up depicting the different usages for the building.
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Alex Wang on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Such a fascinating place!
The jail. The horror. The cruelty. And then the beauty. The community. The mystery.
Historically, a religious college, a church like institute where WOMEN were getting education prior to it is socially acceptable everywhere else.
It’s hard to summarize how I feel.
But in wonder.
I am in awe of the river of history that IS the stories we created together.
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Sara D on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ The front desk staff let us know that you cannot enter unless you are a member, but were a bit rude about it. We are tourists so how are we to know that automatically? Would’ve appreciated them being a bit kinder about that since we came all this way. Looking online after apparently you can book a guided tour which they never told us, very disappointed.
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Jojo Markarello on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Got there a bit early for the tour. They told us to wait in the library. Guy at the library was super rude. Told us we couldn't sit. I voiced my discontent and he responded really rudely and sarcastically. Do not recommend. Tour was nice, though.
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Eli Krueger on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ My wife and I were recently married (and had our reception dinner) in the library at the Morrin Centre, and it was a thoroughly lovely experience. Their rental pricing was exceedingly reasonable. Our contact person at the Morrin Centre, Cynthia Bureau, was incredibly helpful and flexible in working with us as my now-wife and I planned our wedding across timezones and from another country. Cynthia also was very knowledgeable about the library and its history and gave the wedding guests a spooky jail tour. Additionally, if you like murder mysteries, you might be interested to know (as my mom was) that the Morrin Centre Library features prominently in Louise Penny’s Bury Your Dead. And once you see the library, you'll know why an author would want to set part of their mystery; it feels like a room from a different time and place.
All in all, I cannot recommend the Morrin Centre highly enough as a place to get married, hold some other event, or just to visit if you're in town! I will look back fondly on my time in their library for the rest of my days.
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Julie DeAngelis on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ This is such a fascinating place! The staff was very friendly and the tour was très bonne. I highly recommend it. They were also setting up for a wedding! Merci for thé fab tour!!
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Randa on Google
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Very interesting place with quite a history! The building in which the center is was first a prison, then a college for Protestants, then a library. Now it is a cultural site and a library! You can get a membership to borrow books for $20 per year/individual or $25 per year/family.
It was so bizarre being in the location where many people suffered and 17 were given the death-sentence. The stairs they walked down for their execution are still the same. Yikes.
I was in a guided tour and we got to experience solitary confinement. We were locked in a small cell in the dark in which prisoners used to be locked for months.
Our tour guide was super good at sharing all the info and playing the role.
I loved learning about the history of the building ant seeing its traces.
In the library, there’s a statue of James Wolf that traveled to several places, including a pub where beer glassed were placed on its arm, before being returned to Quebec City.
For book lovers, here is a horrifying fact: someone tried to bomb the statue, but the missed. So, they bombed the books instead and caused the loss of 500 books.
The only thing I wish was different is the time given to just explore by ourselves. Were given a little bit of time to look at the details of the rooms etc, but not nearly enough time to really be in the moment and reflect on what we are seeing.
PS: the Morrin Center is the only Anglophone library in Quebec City.
It’s pretty cool. If I lived in the area I would have loved to be a member and hang out between all the books there.
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