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The Morrin Centre, a former jail turned library, serves as a vital hub for Quebec City's English-speaking community. It offers a safe space for conversation and a reminder that they are not alone. The article explores the history and current role of the center in a city where French dominance is enshrined in law.
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Get it sent to your inbox.When Kristy Findlay moved to Quebec City after her American-born husband accepted a job there, she soon developed a longing. \u201cI would go to parks with my young children, I would hear a little English spoken, and I feel like: Oh my gosh, I\u2019m hungry for it,\u201d said Ms. Findlay, who was raised in Ontario.As the capital of a province that vigorously defends its use of French from the sea of English that surrounds it, Quebec City has become a place where Canada\u2019s otherwise majority language is almost an afterthought: Just 2.3 percent of its population, about 17,000 people, identify as primarily English speakers in Canada\u2019s census. A series of provincial laws enacted over the last five decades that were meant to assert the dominance of French, along with Quebec\u2019s separatist movement, prompted an exodus of many English speakers to other parts of Canada.But even in this Francophone redoubt, Ms. Findlay was ultimately able to find a place where her craving for conversation in her native language could be sated.At a former jail and Presbyterian college standing amid the cobblestone streets of the city\u2019s historic Upper Town, a discreet sign above the entrance, reading simply \u201cMorrin,\u201d gives no hint of the linguistic heterodoxy taking place inside.The Morrin Cultural Centre acts as a hub for Quebec City\u2019s English speakers much the same way as outposts of the Goethe-Institut do for Germans living abroad. It\u2019s a place for books, education, conversation and, above all, it\u2019s a reminder to English speakers that they aren\u2019t alone.ImageKristy Findlay said she grew to crave hearing and speaking English while living in Quebec City. At its heart is the city\u2019s only English-language library. With its cast iron balcony railings and green leather chairs, it still has a decided 19th-century flavor, even if its wooden shelves are filled with contemporary titles.While the library is a wonder, and the center\u2019s exhibitions, lectures and children\u2019s programming are welcome bonuses, the center is most important for Ms. Findlay and many others as a sanctuary where English conversation flows without embarrassment or apology.\u201cWe have this precarity with the government, but the Morrin Centre belongs to us \u2014 this is ours,\u201d said Ms Findlay, who moved to Quebec City about 15 years ago. \u201cIt\u2019s a place we can go and hear English and speak English \u2014 a safe space.\u201d ImageThe Morrin Centre sits amid the cobblestone streets of the city\u2019s historic Upper Town neighborhood, an area of Quebec City popular with tourists. While the Morrin Centre has become the English-speaking community\u2019s hub, it\u2019s not the only local institution helping bind the members: There\u2019s a weekly newspaper, a local CBC Radio station, English-language churches, English public schools and a junior college. The position of Quebec City\u2019s small English minority has not always been so comfortable.Richard Walling\u2019s memories of attending high school in Quebec City during the 1970s, a peak time for Quebec nationalism, are not all fond ones.\u201cWhen you were outside of the school environment, you would not dare speak English in public, on the city bus or anything like that,\u201d said Mr. Walling, the head of Jeffery Hale Community Partners, a charity that provides health and social services to the English-speaking community. \u201cIt was really a tough time.\u201dDiane Kameen, who moved from Manitoba to Quebec to study French in 1980 and never left, recalled how the community generally kept a low profile in those days, trying not to ruffle any feathers.\u201cWe have a small but very dynamic population that\u2019s managed to hang on and ride out that storm,\u201d Ms. Kameen said.Still, official antipathy toward English continues. The provincial government recently introduced a series of measures mandating French, including requiring most public servants to work exclusively in French; limiting access to English services for immigrants; and introducing a tough French test for English-speaking junior college students. And many more private companies now must conduct business in French after the threshold was lowered to 25 employees.ImageRichard Walling said that when growing up in Quebec City in the 1970s, a peak time for Quebec nationalism, he avoided using English in public. But Mr. Walling said the general hostility toward English speakers in Quebec City has dissipated, in large part because of the city\u2019s economic transformation. During his high school years the main employers were the provincial government, which did not value English-language skills, and industries that mostly served other companies within the province.Now the city is a center for video game developers and other tech companies that sell their products worldwide and that have to recruit employees, many of whom are English speakers, from outside Quebec.Nevertheless, Mr. Walling offered English-speaking newcomers some advice for living in Quebec City.\u201cIf you come here thinking you\u2019re going to be able to live everything in English, you had better leave because you won\u2019t be happy,\u201d he said. \u201cIf you embrace both the English and the French, it\u2019s a wonderful place.\u201dWith the exodus of English speakers in the 1980s, the Morrin Centre suffered something of a slump, with much of the building uninhabitable and decaying.ImageVisiting the former jail cells in the center\u2019s basement has become a hit with tourists. Money was so tight, remembers Ms. Kameen, a board member at the time, that \u201cthe big decision as a board member back then was if we would get an electric typewriter.\u201d A series of fund-raising events and government grants financed extensive renovations, and the building\u2019s history became an asset. The cells from its days as a jail had never been removed from the basement, largely because they held up the foundation. They were transformed into a claustrophobic, if evocative, museum about the prison and prison reform in 19th-century Quebec.The torrent of tourists who descend on Quebec City who now pay for tours of the library and jail have created a reliable revenue source to maintain the building and fund programs.On a recent evening, a lecture by Sandra Tomayla, a local photographer and filmmaker, attracted a diverse group of people \u2014 including a French speaker, Christian Shriqui,Originally from Montreal, Mr. Shriqui said he belongs to a book club at the Morrin and regularly attends workshops and poetry readings here \u2014 all in English.\u201cIt\u2019s a very rare jewel, a gem,\u201d Mr. Shriqui said, adding that he regularly encounters other French speakers at the events. ImageEven for some French speakers, the Morrin Centre\u2019s lectures, readings and workshops make it \u201ca gem.\u201d Ms. Tomayla, the night\u2019s speaker, arrived in Quebec City at the age of 7 with her family from Peru and was schooled in French, a requirement for most immigrants to Quebec. She had known little about the Morrin Centre until she used the library for a photo shoot.For someone like her, attracted to English-speaking culture, it has filled a void in her Quebec life.\u201cI do appreciate Quebec culture, but it\u2019s not my culture,\u201d she said. \u201cI just thought it was a library and a museum and that they did some events like any other place. But I didn\u2019t know they had so many activities and that they had a community. It\u2019s amazing. I should have come here earlier.\u201dIan Austen reports on Canada for The Times. A Windsor, Ontario, native now based in Ottawa, he has reported on the country for two decades. 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