Traduction de «Sulpiciens » (Français → Anglais) :

Congregation of Saint Sulpice

Society of the Priests of St Sulpice [ Sulpicians ]

At age 14 Riel was sent to Montreal to be educated at the College of the Suplician Fathers, the oldest college in Montreal.

It could have waited a little rather than selling a piece of land that was a jewel in the downtown area of Montreal for a third of its value, land that had been acquired from the Sulpician brothers.

The Kanesatake Mohawk land claim has been described as “perhaps the most difficult Indian claim which the Canadian government inherited from pre-Confederation administrations” (6) The unique circumstances of Kanesatake Mohawks with respect to their land base can be traced to the 1717 grant of the Seigneurie du Lac des Deux-Montagnes (the Seigneury) to the Sulpician Order by the French Crown (7) Conditions of the grant included the establishment of a mission within the Seigneury for the indigenous population in the region; the settlement, created in 1721, included Iroquois (Mohawks) among the Aboriginal inhabitants.

In 1945, the federal government sought to resolve the controversy by agreeing to purchase the remaining Sulpician lands and to assume the Sulpicians’ outstanding obligations toward the Mohawks.