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Kevin O’Donnell
President
Kevin O'Donnell was elected president of the QAHN in 2008. Long interested in history, he scripted the multimedia series Quebec Mosaic during his time at Télé-Québec, the province’s public television network.
While serving as president of the Hudson Historical Society (2003–2008), Mr. O'Donnell came to realize that heritage in all of its manifestations -- not only in terms buildings and landscapes, but also as it is embodied in stories, in shared experiences, and in ways of doing things -- is a vital resource upon which a community can draw as it forges its ever-evolving identity.
Kevin O'Donnell has contributed several articles to QAHN’s print magazine, Quebec Heritage News.
Richard Evans
Treasurer
Richard ("Dick") Evans, founding president of the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN), has long been an active volunteer in the field of heritage preservation and community affairs in his native Eastern Townships.
Following a career of nearly 30 years, which took him to Montreal, Delaware, Missouri and Saskatchewan, Mr. Evans retired from his position with Dupont Canada in 1987 and returned to live near Huntingville with his wife Marina in what has been the Evans family home since 1937.
A lifelong interest in local history, combined with his experience in business world, naturally suited him for volunteer duties with the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Museum Society. During his first two terms as historical society president, beginning in 1989, Mr Evans’s leadership proved instrumental in the development and establishment of Uplands Museum. He has subsequently remained extremely active on the board of directors of the historical society, serving three additional terms as president. In 1999, Mr. Evans led negotiations with the Town of Lennoxville to create Uplands Cultural and Heritage Centre. It was under his leadership that the Lennoxville-Ascot Historical and Musuem Society organized the first-ever Quebec-wide conference of Anglophone historical societies in 2000, out of which the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network emerged. Mr. Evans served as QAHN’s president until 2003 and has continued to serve on the board since then as treasurer.
As a volunteer board member with Patrimoine Heritage Huntingville, Mr Evans was active in obtaining funding to carry out much-needed restoration work on the historic Huntingville Universalist Church.He also continues to serve on the Estrie regional round-table of the Conseil du patrimoine religieux du Quebec.
In 2010, QAHN instituted its Richard Evans Award. This award is presented annually to a group or organization that has demonstrated leadership and made an exceptional long-term contribution to the protection and preservation of Anglophone heritage in the province of Quebec.
Sandra Stock
Vice-president
Sandra Stock has been a director of QAHN for the past six years. Ms. Stock has been active with several QAHN projects, most recently the CHIRI cemetery inventory for the Laurentian district.
Ms. Stock was the president of the Morin Heights Historical Association until 2010 when she moved to Montreal. She has written many articles on historical subjects for Quebec Heritage News and various community newspapers. Her academic background is in English literature and art history.
Sandra Stock is a regular contributor to Quebec Heritage News, and is presently working with QAHN's Montreal committee to help organize the Ways of Memory conference in partnership with Concordia University, for March 2011.
Derek C. Hopkins
Director at large
An engineer by trade, Derek C. Hopkins was born in East Grinstead, Sussex, England and came to Canada in 1956 following Graduation from university.
A director of QAHN for several years, Mr. Hopkins is currently serving as vice-president of the Quebec Family History Society and as projects coordinator of the QFHS. He is also a member of the Family History Society of Greater Ottawa, and the Society of Genealogists, based in London, England.
Mr. Hopkins has been interested in genealogy for twenty-five years. For the last fifteen years, he has been deeply involved with computers, including working on several databases and websites. He has co-authored several church repertories and is coordinating an indexing project for births, marriages and deaths. He is also part of the team working to make all QFHS databases available to members free of charge and to non-members (by becoming a member of QFHS) on the QFHS website.
Ann Montgomery
Secretary
Born in Montreal, Ann Montgomery received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Sir George Williams University, and in that institution began a career in university administration which took her to York University in Toronto in 1970. Between 1988 and 1990, she worked in marketing and education at Science North in Sudbury, Ontario. She returned to Quebec and the Eastern Townships in 1990 as Registrar and Secretary General at Bishop's University, from which she retired in 2005.
Ann Montgomery has a profound interest in the history and culture of the Townships, where her family has lived for several generations. She is currently President of the Musée des beaux-arts de Sherbrooke, and has also served on the boards of the Orchestre symphonique de Sherbrooke, (1990-1996) and the Intérnational du cinéma de l’Estrie (1994-2004 ). She was President of the Townshippers’ Research and Cultural Foundation from 1996 to 2004. She is a member of the Société d’histoire de Sherbrooke, and President of the Stanstead Historical Society.