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Another standing-room only event today in QAHN's 2019 Heritage Talks series. Over 60 visitors crowded into historic, atmospheric Golden Rule Lodge No. 5 in Stanstead. Grant Myers and Jean-Jacques Rousseau explained the history - and some of the mystery - surrounding Freemasonry, in particular Freemasonry along the Quebec-Vermont border. The event was followed by a lunch at the Colby-Curtis Museum, across the street.
Photo - Matthew Farfan
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Johanna Tzountzouris of the Centre for Community Organizations helped to animate a session on social media, at th eColby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead, as part of QAHN's Communication Matters series.
Photo - MF
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Heritage Talks heads to mysterious Golden Rule Lodge, Canada's oldest Masonic Hall, in Stanstead on May 25, 10:30 a.m. Join us to hear all about the mysteries of Freemasonry!
Featuring Grant Myers and Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
560 Dufferin Stanstead.
Includes lunch at nearby Colby-Curtis Museum.
$20 per person. RSVP 819-876-7322
Click here for the complete program!
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QAHN's 2019 Heritage Talks program visited the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead for a fascinating talk by Dwane Wilkin on the historic salmon population of the Eastern Townships of Quebec. Photo - MF.
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Following a talk at the Stanbridge East Community Centre, QAHN's own (and Missisquoi Museum curator) Heather Darch took participants on a spirited tour of several local graveyards in Missisquoi County. Photo - Christina Adamko.
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The TRCF has awarded QAHN financial support for its 2019-2020 Heritage Talks series.
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QAHN's own Dwane Wilkin brought a long-lost naturalist back to life with his presentation "Consolations of the Marsh: Remembering Henry Mousley" at Uplands in Lennoxville.
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QAHN co-sponsored a trivia nite, organized by the organization Youth 4 Youth, last week at the Golden Lion Pub in Lennoxville. Emily Desormeaux, of Townshippers' Association, another partner, reported that the event had been a great success, and possibly the first of many. QAHN intern Bishop's University student Duncan Crabtree helped to animate the evening.
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--February 13, 2019.
1. b. Pearl ash from the hardwood forests. Beef and dairy products would later become the main agricultural goods produced in the area.
2. b. American squatters. The Abenakis had hunted the land long before but had not settled permanently. Before 1791, the land had not been parcelled out to British or French-Canadian settlers.
3. d. St. Francis River.
4. b. It would remain an empty buffer zone between the United States and Lower Canada.
5. c. Those who owned the land had no interest in settling it.
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--February 12, 2019.
1. What was the very first form of agricultural produce that the early Townships colonists profited from?
a. Squash fields abandoned by members of the Abenaki nation
b. Pearl ash from the hardwood forests
c. Grains (flax, wheat, barley)
d. Beef and dairy products
2. Which group first permanently settled the Eastern Townships region?
a. Loyalists
b. American squatters
c. The Abenaki nation
d. Retired government officials
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QAHN's 2nd Annual Eastern Townships Heritage Fair, Melbourne, October 20, 2018. Keith Wilcox, President of the Georgeville Historical Society, with a prized artefact. Photo - M. Farfan
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L to R: QAHN Project director Dwane Wilkin; MP and federal International Development Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau; QAHN ED Matthew Farfan.
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QAHN's own Terry Loucks (centre, holding sign) hosted the inauguration of Quebec's first National Healing Forest, on his property in Fitch Bay. Photo - courtesy.
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Sponsored and organized by the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN).
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--September 6, 2018.
1) c
2) a
3) a
4) a
5) c
6) a
7) b
8) c
9) b
10) d
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--September 6, 2018.
1) c
2) a
3) a
4) c
5) c
6) a
7) b
8) d
9) b
10) d
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--September 6, 2018.
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a huge railway boom across the Eastern Townships. It was driven by the need to access raw materials, a desire for quick transportation, the growth of industry, and a mania to build more and more branch lines. Literally dozens of railway companies competed for territory and markets.
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--September 6, 2018.
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a huge railway boom across the Eastern Townships. It was driven by the need to access raw materials, a desire for quick transportation, the growth of industry, and a mania to build more and more branch lines. Literally dozens of railway companies competed for territory and markets.
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Alexander Reford of the Reford Gardens in Grand-Métis, was the guest speaker at QAHN's final event of its Spring "Heritage Talk" series, held at the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead, Quebec on June 3. Photo - Renee Arshinoff.
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Q.A.H.N., the FHQ, and fellow Eastern Townships-based heritage organizations gathered today at Uplands Cultural & Heritage Centre in Lennoxville for their bi-annual meeting. (Photo - M. Farfan)
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As part of the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network's ongoing "Heritage Talks" lecture series, guest speaker Grant Myers gave a well-attended talk on the spotted fever outbreak in the border regions of Quebec and New England at the beginning of the 19th century, at the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical & Museum Society (LAHMS), at Uplands Cultural & Heritage Centre in Lennoxville. Myers is the Vice President of QAHN.
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It was a full house for the fourth lecture in QAHN's ongoing "Heritage Talks" series. Nearly 60 participants joined QAHN and its partner the Missisquoi Museum at the Stanbridge East Community Centre to hear a talk by Frédéric Chounard and Charles Lussier called "Journey Down the Pike: Reflections on Missisquoi’s River Heritage."
