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The library was founded at the moment of the creation of the Grand Séminaire de Montréal (Major
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in 1967. In 2020, the seminary moved from the historic building on
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Hubert, Ollivier. (2007). Stratégies culturelles sulpiciennes: le livre. In D. Deslandres, J. A. Dickinson &O.Hubert (Eds), Les
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