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During National Volunteer Week, QAHN salutes the many dedicated individuals who give so freely of their time and talents to preserving, promoting and protecting our community's history and heritage!

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"Heritage Talks Online 2022-2023" presents: January 26, 2023, 1:30 – 2:30 p.m. "Loyalties in conflict: A Canadian Borderland in War and Rebellion 1812-1840," with Jack Little

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Richmond's new outdoor mural, featuring text in three languages (English, French and Abenaki), was unveiled this past weekend amid much fanfare. This larger than life artwork is one of nearly two dozen local heritage projects supported through QAHN's SRQEA-funded "Belonging" project in its first two years. The mural project was spearheaded by the Richmond County Historical Society. Photo - Laurent Frey

LIA's Migratory Community Arts Festival in beautiful Bury, Quebec. Organized in collaboration with the Société d'histoire et du patrimoine de Bury, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, and other community partners. QAHN's travelling exhibition, and our book "Diversity & Achievement" featured prominently at this event. Photo - courtesy of Osman Arslan.

LIA's Migratory Community Arts Festival in beautiful Bury, Quebec. Organized in collaboration with the Société d'histoire et du patrimoine de Bury, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, and other community partners. QAHN's travelling exhibition, and our book "Diversity & Achievement" featured prominently at this event. Photo - courtesy of Osman Arslan.

LIA's Migratory Community Arts Festival in beautiful Bury, Quebec. Organized in collaboration with the Société d'histoire et du patrimoine de Bury, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, and other community partners. QAHN's travelling exhibition, and our book "Diversity & Achievement" featured prominently at this event. Photo - courtesy of Osman Arslan.

Don't miss this fun afternoon!

Photo: Sophia Farfan.

--Aug. 19, 2022. The coveted Richard Evans Award was presented today by QAHN's president (Grant Myers) and executive director (Matthew Farfan) during a special ceremony at Sherbrooke's Marché de la gare. Ron Foss of Fossmobile Enterprises was on hand to accept the award, and said he was extremely honoured with the recognition of his family's efforts.

This past week, Qahn was very pleased to welcome federal Official Languages minister Ginette Petipas Taylor and Agriculture minister Marie-Claude Bibeau. L to R: Ginette Petipas Taylor; Qahn executive director Matthew Farfan; Qahn president Grant Myers; Qahn VP Jody Robinson; and Marie-Claude Bibeau. QAHN also deposited a brief today in the context of the Government of Canada's consultations on the renewal of the Action Plan for Official Languages.

Meet the Network: Profiles of Heritage Groups across Quebec. 84 pages; lavishly illustrated; full colour. $20 plus postage. Reserve your copy by emailing us at: home@QAHN.org.

MP Marie-Claude Bibeau stopped by for a chat at Friendship Day in Lennoxville on Saturday. Seen here at the QAHN and Townships Sun booth: Mrs. Bibeau (with a copy of Quebec Heritage News), David Wright (holding the Townships Sun), Melanie Cutting and Marion Greenlay.

QAHN's walking tour today of Philipsburg, on the shores of Lake Champlain, featured Heather Darch. Special guests: the Quebec Association of Geography Teachers. Photo: H. Darch.

--February 23, 2022. Today the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) welcomed nearly a dozen member groups from across Quebec taking part in this year’s edition of the Belonging and Identity project, a QAHN initiative undertaken in partnership with the Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise (SRQEA).

Happy Holidays from all of us here at QAHN. And stay healthy & safe! Please note that our offices will be closed from December 23 through January 4.

Sherbrooke Record / Brome County News. Join us here on QAHN's public Facebook page this coming Sunday, 1-3 p.m.

QAHN headed out to the old Rose Cemetery to film another installment in its ongoing "Scandal Makers" documentary series, featuring some of the sketchier characters buried in the graveyards of the Eastern Townships. Our special guest this week was none other than Grant Myers, QAHN's illustrious president.

--September 12, 2021. QAHN Board and Staff headed out today to Canterbury Church (now Canterbury Centre), near Bury, in Quebec's beautiful Eastern Townships, for an open house, and to present volunteer par excellence Steven Aulis with the coveted 2021 Marion Phelps Award for his exceptional work leading the restoration work at the church... Congratulations Steven from all of us, and well deserved!

--September 12, 2021. QAHN Board and Staff headed out today to Canterbury Church (now Canterbury Centre), near Bury, in Quebec's beautiful Eastern Townships, for an open house, and to present volunteer par excellence Steven Aulis with the coveted 2021 Marion Phelps Award for his exceptional work leading the restoration work at the church... Congratulations Steven from all of us, and well deserved!

"COM-Unity" Project: "BELONGING" Discover how Quebec’s English-speakers see themselves! ONLINE, June 10, 2021, 12 noon. Quebec's Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d’expression anglaise has funded six community organizations, whose members represent many aspects of the English-speaking community, to create projects about identity and belonging from the point of view of English-speaking Quebecers of different ages and from multiple backgrounds.