Trois Rivieres, St-Maurice Paper Co. Ltd.| Forestry Fridays: Historic Views of Lumber Mills & Logging Scenes in Eastern Canada
Trois Rivieres – St.Maurice Paper Co. Ltd. – Three Rivers, P.Q.
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Vintage postcard – Cie de pulpe de Chicoutimi, P.Q.
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Studio Arthur Gendreau: Historic Photographs of Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere (2/3) | Kamouraska, Qc
A few days ago reader Brian O’Hara shared some historic photographs of Ste-Anne-de-la-Pocatiere which had been taken by a relative of his – a M. Arthur Gendreau. Today Brian is sharing a truly superb image of M. Gendreau himself, standing inside his photography studio with two young children (perhaps his own?). It’s a fascinating glimpse into the interior of a ca.1925 photography studio.
Attention camera buffs!
If you can identify anything in these pictures,
please drop me a line in the comment box below. Read more »
Eglise St-Joachim (2/2) | Chateauguay Today
Chateauguay’s historic St-Joachim Church on a frigid winter day (2010)
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No Trespassing | A Reflection by Peter Lagasse
Regular readers will know Peter Lagasse as the writer of a series of family history articles on some American Lagasses (see link below) but today Peter is giving us something a little different. He’s sharing his take on a delicate situation that many of us have faced.
Guest Post: Peter Lagasse
Research Can Lead You to Some Signs of “NO TRESPASSING”
Being an “Ancestor Detector” can bring many hours of enjoyment. Even when you hit those brick walls that don’t want to come down, there is a feeling of being a Scotland Yard detective determined to find the lose brick that will bring the wall tumbling down. What a thrill of victory comes over you as the wall falls. It is as if you have just won a gold medal in the Olympic Games.
However, researching your family can also lead you down paths that are not so endearing. It can lead you to a person that you were not expecting or had forgotten. And I’m not talking about the deceased ancestor that has a skeleton in his or her closet. Though, I’m sure, we have all run into some of those too. I’m speaking about a living member of the family. Maybe it is an unknown sibling or someone the family has rarely mentioned. This brings us to a different place in our detective work.
What do I do with the new found information? How can I verify this find without upsetting the “apple cart”? Should I make contact with this person? And what do I do if there is a “NO TRESPASSING” sign placed in my path? Read more »
The New Midgets Palace (Pt.1/3) | Count and Countess Nicol of Montreal | Sepia Saturday
I have a very faint memory that dates back to over 50 years ago when I was a little girl growing up in Ville Lasalle, and my parents brought me downtown to visit what we called “The Dollhouse”. I remember that I was enchanted with the visit but that my mother felt vaguely uncomfortable and warned me before going in that I should “be polite”. I’ve since found out that what I was visiting was “The New Midgets Palace” which was an independant business founded by Montrealers Count and Countess Nicol. It was later bought by another person of short stature – Mme Huguette Riou-Bastien – and I’m actually not yet sure who I saw when I visited! Read more »
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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