Source: Photograph by WTL© on site in Montréal (2016).
Image: The building in the center of this image is a view looking north from the Saint-Laurent waterfront of the (Roman Catholic) Chapelle-de-Notre-Dame-de-Bon Secours (Our Lady of Good Succor/Help chapel).
Comments: On this site in 1655 Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620-1700) had constructed the first chapel/church in Montreal. The land for this chapel was donated by Maisonneuve. The building we see here was constructed in 1771 on the site of the first wooden building at the founding location of Old Montreal (Vieux Montréal), just outside the walled fort you just saw earlier. Although the statue at the top faces the port behind the photographer, what we see here is not the façade but rather the back of the building. (The opposite side, the front entrance and façade was too dee; in shadow to produce a good photo.) Archeologists have unearthed the foundation of the first chapel including artifacts of indigenous people who had lived here for two thousand years and perhaps even much longer. This church has remained a pilgrimage site since its earliest days until the present. At this site, sister (soeur) Marguerite was the first teacher in Montreal and throughout the small river communities in the lower Saint-Laurent. This is where she established the headquarters for the Congrégation de Notre Dame. In 1673 he returned from France with a wooden statuette of Our Lady of Good Help, which as said to have had helped with miraculous cures. The first stone chapel was completed in 1678; it burned in 1754, but the reliquary with the small statue inside was found untouched by the flames. The church was reconstructed in much of its current form in 1771. Marguerite Bourgeoys was canonized in 1982 by Pope John Paul II as St. Marguerite Bourgeoys. For a number of images taken from the belvedere at the top of tower, see: => Belvedere A; and then follow the image from A to F. For an enlargement of a 1700 portrait of Marguerite Bourgeoys, click on the following image:

Humanities Question: (A) Briefly describe the contents of this image; (B) Knowing a little about this history of this institution and knowng that this particular building was built at the height of French Canadian culture, what elements do you see here that would lead you to conclude that it can be considered part of Latin American architecture (humanities) and culture?