History Articles

The composite photograph seen here was published as a postcard in 1916 to commemorate the centennial of the first Roman Catholic mass celebrated in Sherbrooke.

Monseigneur Antoine Racine, the first bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Sherbrooke, was born in Saint-Ambroise-de-la-Jeune-Lorette, near Quebec City, in 1822.

Nestled in the hills not far from the Canada-U.S. border at East Hereford is the tiny hamlet of Saint-Venant-de-Paquette.

"In a civilization more and more mobile, loud-sounding and speaking, zones of silence become a vital necessity. So monasteries more than ever are called to be haunts of peace and interiority.

To enter the Musée du patrimoine Louis-Emile-Beauregard in Dudswell, Quebec, is to enter a land of Lilliputian delight.

Anyone interested in fine architecture and history will love Stanstead.

FOUR-SEASON RESORT

A hundred and twenty years after it was built, and twenty-five years after it was by-passed, the covered bridge over the Fitch Bay Narrows is still standing.

Located at the foot of the Appalachian Mountains, the township of Dudswell was first inhabited around 1800, in the area of Bishopton.

The towns hug the river bank along the St. Francis.