JOLIETTE 



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JONAH 



rights of Joliet, south of Quebec, which is still 

 the possession of his descendants. 



JOLIETTE, zholyet', the county town of 

 Joliette County, Quebec, situated in the south- 

 ern part of the province and on L'Assomption 

 River. Montreal is thirty-six miles south and 

 Quebec is 140 miles northeast. Transportation 

 is offered by the Canadian Pacific and Cana- 

 dian Northern railways. Joliette is the center 

 of a large agricultural section. Facilities for 

 manufacture are increased by the water and 

 electric power provided by the Joliette Falls 

 on L'Assomption River and Shawinigan Falls 

 on the Saint Maurice River. There are five 

 tobacco factories, woolen, lumber, grist and 

 paper mills, clothing and biscuit factories and 

 breweries; the repair shops of the Canadian 

 Northern Railway are "located here. The 

 prominent buildings are the Dominion building, 

 which cost $80,000, the courthouse, city hall, 

 the Roman Catholic cathedral, the bishop's 

 palace and a hospital. Besides the public and 

 parochial schools, Joliette has a seminary and 

 a convent for girls, and Saint Viateur College 

 for boys, the first school of the Order estab- 

 lished in Canada. The place was settled in 

 about 1840 by Barthelemy Joliette, in whose 

 honor it was named. In 1863 it was incorpo- 

 rated as a city. The population in 1911 was 

 6,346; in 1916 it was estimated at 7,000. 



JOLY DE LOTBINIERE, zho'le de lohtbe 

 nyar' , SIR HENRI GUSTAVE (1829-1908), a Cana- 

 dian statesman, for many years the leader of 

 the Liberals in Quebec. He was born at Eper- 

 nay, France, where his father owned famous 

 vineyards. His mother", Julie de Lotbiniere, 

 was the granddaughter of Eustache de Lotbin- 

 iere, one of Montcalm's engineers at Quebec. 

 It was therefore doubly fitting that Henri Gus- 

 ta.ve Joly, after living in the county of Lotbin- 

 iere, Que., and representing it in the old Cana- 

 dian assembly should assume the name De 

 Lotbiniere; this he did in 1888. 



After coming to Canada as a boy with his 

 parents young Joly spent five years in the 

 study of law, and in 1855 was called to the 

 bar of lower Canada. A few years later, in 

 1861, he entered political life as a Liberal mem- 

 ber of the assembly. Like Sir A. A. Dorion, 

 he opposed Confederation, in the belief that 

 the rights of the French-Canadians would not 

 be sufficiently protected. After Confederation 

 he was the acknowledged leader of the Quebec 

 Liberals, and sat both in the Quebec assembly 

 and in the Dominion House of Commons until 

 1874. In that year, when dual representation 



was abolished, Joly retired from the House of 

 Commons, but continued to lead his party in 

 the assembly. In 1874 and again in 1877 he 

 declined appointment to the Dominion Senate, 

 and in the latter year also declined the Min- 

 istry of Agriculture in the Mackenzie govern- 

 ment. 



From March, 1878, to October, 1879, Joly 

 was premier of Quebec. His administration 

 was notable for its efforts to economize and to 

 reestablish the provincial finances on a sound 

 basis. From 1879 to 1883 Joly was leader of 

 the opposition in the assembly, and in 1885 he 

 retired from public life as a protest against 

 his party's attitude toward Louis Riel. Ten 

 years later, in response to appeals from his 

 party, he took an active part in the campaign, 

 and at the elections of 1896 was again returned 

 to the House of Commons. He at once be- 

 came controller of inland revenue in the Laur- 

 ier government, and in 1897 was given a seat 

 in the Cabinet as Minister of Inland Revenue. 

 From 1900 to 1906 he was lieutenant-governor, 

 of British Columbia. Queen Victoria created 

 him Knight Commander of the Order of Saint 

 Michael and Saint George in 1895. G.H.L. 



JONAH, jo'na, a Hebrew prophet who fig- 

 ures in one of the best known of Old Testa- 

 ment narratives. According to the story as 

 given in the book of Jonah, he was commanded 

 by God to go to the Assyrian city of Nineveh, 

 to warn the people there that they were 

 doomed to punishment because of their sins. 

 Disobeying the Divine will, he went to Joppa 

 and boarded a ship bound for Tarshish. Dur- 

 ing the voyage a great storm lashed the sea 

 into mighty waves, and the frightened sailors, 

 thinking that this upheaval was due to some 

 evil person on board, cast lots to see who was 

 the cause of their peril. The lot fell to Jonah, 

 who was cast into the raging sea. As soon as 

 this was done the storm ceased, and as the 

 disobedient prophet sank into the waves it is 

 said he was swallowed by a great fish which 

 God had sent for his deliverance. 



At the end of three days and nights, during 

 which the repentant Jonah lay within the fish 

 praying to God to save him, the prophet was 

 cast forth upon dry land. When God a second 

 time directed him to go to Nineveh he obeyed, 

 and so earnestly did he preach to the people 

 that they repented. Jehovah therefore forgave 

 them, and so Jonah's prophecy, that in forty 

 days their city would be destroyed, was not 

 fulfilled. Jonah, instead of being pleased, was 

 greatly disappointed, for he thought the people 





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