An Unsuspected Past - Notre-Dame-des-Neiges School
The child’s mission is to discover the name of a profession once practiced in the Côte-des-Neiges area. Each time a challenge is completed, a historical figure associated with the neighbourhood hands the child a card containing letters, which serve as clues to the puzzle.
Challenge 1
Brother André challenges the child to match the stages
of building Saint Joseph’s Oratory with the correct dates.
Challenge 2
Marie Gérin-Lajoie asks the child to place the various
buildings that have been home to the school in chronological order.
Challenge 3
Jean de Brébeuf invites the child to identify the activities
that students at Notre-Dame-des-Neiges School used to participate in.
Challenge 4
Justine Lacoste-Beaubien challenges the child to identify the
two buildings that were not built in the Beaux Arts style, in contrast
to the Notre-Dame-des-Neiges School. The Beaux Arts style is characterized
by symmetry, monumentality, balanced proportions, and decorative details
(columns, arches or statues.)
Challenge 5
Jean Brillant hands a card to the child who succeeds in moving
the flags of the countries to the correct locations on the world map.
Conclusion
Once all the challenges are archieved, the child must place
all the letters in the correct order to solve the mystery and learn the
name of the vanished profession: tanner. If interested, the child can
then learn more about this profession.
