Vintage Postcard: Chicoutimi, Quebec (rue Racine)
Vintage coloured postcard of the rue Racine in Chicoutimi, Quebec
Chicoutimi, Quebec – Vintage Sign
Le Plus Grand Choix
NOUVEAUTES EN VILLE – LESSARD & FRERE
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Vintage Postcard: Sorel, Quebec
This is a vintage (ca.1906), b/w postcard of the rue du-Roi in Sorel, Quebec
Reverse of Postcard of Sorel, Quebec
Addressee:
Miss E Neumann, 83 Beaumont St., Brooklyn, N.Y., N.Y.
Message:
Sunday 8-9-26
Hello Elizabeth, We made Sorel by 7 PM. I called Albert on the phone and wanted us to come to Drummondville but we stayed at the Sorel Hotel. We saw Drummondville lose a tough game 3 to 2. The game went 10 inings. Firoud picked for Drummonville. We got your letter tonight and we regret that you couldn’t come because we are staying at a pretty classy dump and we have twin beds. Joe & Gir…
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St-Helen’s Island (L’Ile Ste-Helene) Montreal, Quebec
Family Photo - Summer of 1956
When I was growing up in the 1950s, St-Helen’s Island (L’Ile Ste-Helene) was a popular destination with Montrealers trying to escape the city’s heat – and this was especially true for working-class families (like mine) who couldn’t afford “real” vacations in far-off places. St-Helen’s Island is located just off Montreal Island in the St-Lawrence River and water was clean at the time (or at least we thought it was) so its beach and picnic grounds were always paced with fun-seeking Montrealers!
For this photograph, my parents posed me and my sister in front of our pride-and-joy – the family’s Morris Minor.
What we didn’t know at the time was that St-Helen’s Island would be completely transformed less than a decade later as part of Montreal’s preparation for its world fair – Expo 67. Montreal’s brand new subway system (le Metro) was being built, and an engineer hit on the idea of dumping the excavated earth into the St-Lawrence River to build up Ile Ste-Helene and Ile Notre- Dame-Islands. I suspect this type of project would not pass muster in our more ecologically aware times, but the 1950s/60s were a time of grandoise ideas and mega-projects (see also Happy 5oth Birthday – St-Lawrence Seaway!). In this excerpt from the Montreal Expo 67 Official Guide entitled “Nouveaux Travaux d’Hercule” or “The Miracle of Expo” you can see that Quebeckers really felt they were taking their place on the world stage.
Quote from the Expo 67Official Guide:
In two years the original Ile Ste-Sainte-Helene (top) was extended and
Ile Notre-Dame built up from a few acres of rocks (bottom).
Expo 67 Official Guide:
Map showing the new Metro (red dotted lines)
Ile Ste-Helen with new amusement park La Ronde
Ile Notre-Dame site of the Montreal Formula 1 Grand Prix Races
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Mohawk Warriors, Nam Knights & Canadian Vietnam War Vets
Yesterday I spent a few hours in Kahnawake at the Echoes of a Proud Nation Pow Wow. I went to see the dancers but what I’m sharing in this post is a photograph of the very stirring Grand Entrance of some Iroquois veterans of several Canadian and American armed conflicts.
The Six Nations Confederacy – to which the Mohawk belong – straddles several provincial and international borders. The Mohawk have a long warrior tradition and in modern times they’ve served in both the Canadian and American Armed Services. The first three flags at the front are those of the United States of America, Canada and the Iroquois Confederacy.
These veterans actually made two Grand Entrances because many of them had arrived en masse on motorcycles just an hour before. I happened to arrive at the same time and it was quite an eye opener for me because I didn’t realize that there were military motorcycle clubs. I noticed two types of insignia – Nam Knights and the Canadian Vietnam Veterans one pictured below.
There were other insignia but I was a little too shy (that’s my story and I’m sticking to it!!!) to walk up and get a closer look!
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Vintage Postcard: Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec
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This is another vintage b/w postcard following my July theme: SIGNS.
Vintage sign for Cafe Gaiete
Vintage Sign for “blue coal”
Blue Coal is Anthracite - once used as heating fuel
Vintage sign for Pepsi-Cola (Buvez Pepsi-Cola, c’est ?????)
Reverse: vintage postcard of Riviere-du-Loup, Quebec
Further Reading:
The History of Pepsi Cola at The Diversity of My Thoughts (Blog)
GenealogyWise & Postcards: A New Place To Meet
Readers who are part of the genealogy/family history community will have undoubtedly heard the buzz about the new social networking site GenealogyWise. If you’re like me you might be thinking “Yikes – another site – enough already!!!”
Well, I always check out anything that Thomas MacEntee suggests so I signed up and I found out that in addition to the usuall bells and whistles GenealogyWise also offers a really nifty Groups feature.
I’ve already made a POSTCARDS group here:
GenealogyWise POSTCARD Group
I think this will be a great place to post information about the Festival of Postcards, but more importantly it will be a great place to
Share tips, ideas & questions on how to use postcards to best support family history research & story-telling – but also to develop our own Best Practices when blogging about or with postcards.
I find that there are lots of interesting ideas and feedback in my Canadian Family Comment Boxes and I think the GenealogyWise POSTCARDS group might be a good place to continue those conversations.
So, please try it, you’ll like it!
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Vintage Postcard: Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre, Quebec
Main Street, St. Anne de Beaupre, Quebec Canada
(Columbus House, Irish Shop, Colisee(?), Royal …Museum)
Detail: Vintage Car in Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre
Can anyone date this car?
Reverse: Ste-Anne-de-Beaupre (Quebec) Postcard
Information:
The Post Card & Greeting Card Co., Ltd., Toronto – Canada Series – Canada Series is a guarantee of Canadian Manfacture – Made in Canada – Correspondence – Address Only __________________________________
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