{"id":1165,"date":"2024-07-23T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archivesjesuites.ca\/en\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2025-01-27T18:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T18:29:02","slug":"louis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archivesjesuites.ca\/en\/louis\/","title":{"rendered":"The Archives of Louis-Adolphe Huguet-Latour, friend of the Jesuits"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
By Noami Mercier, Project Archivist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Louis-Adolphe Huguet-Latour (1812-1904) is one of the few lay people whose archives are held by the AJC. Bequeathed to Coll\u00e8ge Sainte-Marie on his death, many of his documents have become part of the largest collection held by the AJC\u2014the Collection des Archives du Coll\u00e8ge Sainte-Marie. This practice was common among friends of the Jesuits, educated men who moved in the same circles. This article looks at the contents of his personal fonds, acquired a few decades later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1863, Louis-Adolphe Huguet-Latour published the first edition of the Ville-Marie Directory: the origin, utility, and progress of Montreal\u2019s Catholic Institutions<\/em> [Annuaire de Ville-Marie : origine, utilit\u00e9 et progr\u00e8s des institutions catholiques de Montr\u00e9al<\/em>]. From the very first pages, he emphasized the importance he attaches to the meticulous work of recording information to preserve and build the memory of societies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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“The gaps that we will inevitably be obliged to leave in our plan will perhaps show how important it is for each parish, each mission, each college or community, each society and even, if you like, each respectable family, to have a distinct book, separate from the accounting registers, in which to record, at the appropriate time, everything that is historically linked and, from its point of view, to each body thus constituted. What beautiful pages we would have today, with this method, on the intimate history of Canada!”<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Couverture de L’Annuaire de Ville-Marie<\/em>, Biblioth\u00e8que des J\u00e9suites au Canada.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Born to a bourgeois Montreal family in 1812, Huguet-Latour became a notary in 1847. In the 1850s, he joined the Montreal militia, as his father\u2014also a notary\u2014had done before him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
At the same time, he was involved in several cultural societies, including the Temperance Society of the Diocese of Montreal. His personal involvement was part of a wider social phenomenon that began to gain momentum in the late 1840s, with the movement initiated by Father Charles Chiniquy. Huguet-Latour was also involved in the Montreal Historical Society, founded in 1858 by Jacques Viger, and became its first librarian.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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