Sundial 66
- Dial City: Trois Rivieres
- Dial State/Province: Quebec
- Dial Country: Canada
- Lat: 46° 20.700' N
- Dial Nr: 66
- Dial Type: Vertical Dial
- Dial Access: Public
- Lon: 72° 32.100' W
- Dial Owner: Ursuline Convent
- Dial Designer: Msgr. Charles-Olivier Caron
- Dial Maker:
- Dial Date: 1860; restored 1934, 1980
- Location:
- Ursuline Convent 734 rue des Ursulines Trois-Rivieres Quebec
- Description:
- A declining vertical dial approximately 6 feet wide and 8 feet tall of painted wood. Diol declines 58? west of south. Dial includes a two-lined analemma noon mark that shows noon corrected for EOT. Hour lines with Roman numerals show local time from 10 AM to 7 PM. Dial is located about 30 feet high on a wall, above an alcove with a statue of the Virgin Mary. The gnomon length is correct for the shadow of the tip to fall on the noon mark. Dial furniture includes a lunar crescent and a depiction of a beaver carrying a tree branch, in a classic French tradition and similar to dials of Zarbula's overall design.
- Inscription:
- Latin: DIES SICUT UMBRA French: comme l'umbra, les jours s'enfuient 1860 1934 English translation: Like the shadow, the days go by
- Dial Links:
- http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM5CM0
- Other References:
- Mayall, p229
- The sundial catalog for la Commission de Cadrans Solaires du Quebec, "Cadrans Solaires et Gnomonique: la contribution du Quebec a ce patrimoine universel" by Andre Bouchard.
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