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QAHN's 16th annual convention and AGM took place last week over three days in Sherbrooke. (Photo - M. Farfan)
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On hand for this semi-annual gathering of Townships-based heritage groups, held at the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead, were representatives of QAHN, the Fédération Histoire Québec, the Colby-Curtis Museum, the Georgeville Historical Society, Richmond County Museum, Eaton Corner Museum, Patrimoine-Ascott Heritage, the Eastern Townships Resource Centre, and Brome County Museum.
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Click here for the video clip!
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This exhibit is only on until Friday, March 4, 2016! It is showing (in French) at the Missisquoi Museum in Stanbridge East until Monday, March 7. And on March 9, it goes to Stanstead, where it will be on display to an international audience at the Haskell Free Library!
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This online exhibition, which consists of 10 panels, is part of QAHN's Canadian Heritage-funded project "Housewife Heroines: Anglophone Women at Home in Montreal during World War II."
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OPEN HOUSE!
Marguerite Knapp Building, 400-257 Queen Street, Lennoxville (Sherbrooke), Quebec.
DATE: Thursday, November 19, 2015.
TIME: 4:30-7:00 p.m.
Refreshments and entertainment.
Come and meet staff and volunteers at QAHN, Townshippers' Association and other community groups!
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The October 2015 meeting of the FHQ's Anglophone institutions of the Townships took place at the Brome County Museum in Knowlton. Taking part were representatives from the BCHS, Richmond County Historical Society, the Eastern Townships Resource Centre; the Stanstead Historical Society (Colby-Curtis Museum); the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Museum Society; the Georgeville Historical Society; Heritage Sutton; the Eaton Corner Museum; the Missisquoi Museum; QAHN ; and the Fédération Histoire Québec. (Photo - MF)
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Some years ago, this unusual stone was built into a wall of an old home in Beaconsfield, Quebec. The stone had been found nearby on the property, and then incorporated in the wall during masonry work.
Barbara Barclay, the owner of the house in question, would like to know if this stone is the result of human art, or whether it was formed naturally.
Please contact QAHN if you have any ideas!
Tel: (819) 564-9595
Toll free in Quebec (877) 964-0409
home@QAHN.org.
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This mystery object, submitted to QAHN for identification, is in the collection of the Morin Heights Historical Association in the Laurentians. Can anyone out there identify this unusual object?
If so, please leave your comment, below.
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The view from the summit of Owl's Head (in Potton Township), overlooking Lake Memphremagog towards Newport, Vermont. (Photo - Matthew Farfan)
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Camp militaire, Farnham, vers 1916. Ancienne carte postale photographique. (Collection privée) / Military Camp, Farnham, c.1916. Early photographic postcard. (Private collection)
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Celebrate QAHN's 15th anniversary! Register now for the 2015 Convention & AGM!
Annual QAHN Convention, Lower Ottawa Valley (St. Andrew's East, Carillon, Cushing & Sainte-Marthe, Quebec / Chute-à-Blondeau, Ontario), June 5-6, 2015.
Come and help us celebrate our 15th anniversary!
For more information, contact QAHN:1 (877) 964-0409 / home@qahn.org.
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Esther Healy (right) of the Richmond County Historical Society was the lucky winner of QAHN's Fall 2014 Drawing. Esther (seen here with QAHN Vice-President Jo Ann Oberg-Muller) takes home a night for two at the beautiful Auberge and Spa West Brome. Thanks go out to the Auberge for sponsoring this event! (Photo - Matthew Farfan)
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Ancienne carte postale photographique. Cette image a été prise près du coin des rues Main et Merry à Magog, vers 1918. (Collection privée) / Early photographic postcard. Photo was taken near the corner of Main and Merry streets in Magog, c.1918. (Private collection)
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Fall in the Eastern Townships of Quebec.
(Photo - Matthew Farfan)
