MONTREAL — Down by the St. Lawrence River, in the parish hall
behind the somber stone church of St. Peter the Apostle, Hervé
Bertrand and other French Canadian Catholics gathered recently to
condemn the church that has so thoroughly shaped most aspects of
life in the province of Quebec. “I don’t have any problem with their God,” Bertrand
said. “But I’ve got big problems with the people who made
the decision that did this to me.”
Bertrand is now a 56-year-old plumber from a Montreal suburb with a wife and three grown children. He is one of about 3,000 French Canadians known as the “Duplessis orphans” because they were institutionalized in the 1940s and '50s when Maurice Duplessis was the iron-willed premier of Quebec.
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Bertrand is now a 56-year-old plumber from a Montreal suburb with a wife and three grown children. He is one of about 3,000 French Canadians known as the “Duplessis orphans” because they were institutionalized in the 1940s and '50s when Maurice Duplessis was the iron-willed premier of Quebec.
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