« The following year, 1926, a splendid bronze group of three figures, an Illinois Indian, Marquette and Jolliet, was erected on Marshall Boulevard, by the Art Institute of Chicago acting as trustee of the Ferguson Fund. The monument is the work of the distinguished sculptor, Herman A. McNeil. The base of the monument carries the legend: ILLINOIS JACQUES MARQUETTE LOUIS JOLIET ». Arth 1931.04 (pdf p. 296).
« Jaques Marquette [1637-1675] , the Jesuit expolorer-priest is shown here with Louis Joliet [1645-1700] and an Algonquin Indian. The book, A Guide to Chicago's Public Art, by Ira J. Bach, and Mary Lackritz Gray, has some further information on this memorial. "The three are depicted at the moment in the summer of 1673, when the French man, guided along the ancient Indian portage that linked the Des Plaines River with the South Branch of the Chicago river, recognized that a canal at this point would link the entire Great Lakes system with the Mississippi watershed. Today the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal, south of this point, makes that connection." » Source.
« The statues stand at one of the corners of the Emerald Necklace, where Marshall Boulevard swings east into 24th. [...] Over 15,000 school children had signed a petition asking for a statue of the missionary-explorer. » Source : John R. Schmidt, Thre Marquette Monument.
Mgr Camille Roy, éminent érudit de Québec, semble avoir prononcé un discours au pied de ce monument, le 13 avril 1931, si on en juge d'après ces photos...

J.-H. Langevin, Jeanne d'Arc Fleur Deslauriers et monseigneur Camille Roy au pied du monument Marquette, avril 1931, photographie, 10,1 x 6,6 cm, Musée de la civilisation n°PH1999-0542. Source: Artefacts Canada.
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J.-E. Livernois Ltée, Jeanne d'Arc Fleur Deslauriers et monseigneur Camille Roy au pied du monument Marquette, 13 avril 1931, photographie, 6,7 x 11,3 cm, Québec, Musée de la civilisation n°PH1999-0559. Source: Artefacts Canada.

J.-Th. Perron, Jeanne d'Arc Fleur Deslauriers, Allocution de monseigneur Camille Roy au pied du monument Marquette, avril 1931, photographie, 8,5 x 14,4 cm, Québec, Musée de la civilisation n°PH1999-0543. Source: Artefacts Canada.
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