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--November 30, 2023. QAHN's launch of our Special Edition of Quebec Heritage News magazine, featuring Dear Mrs. Millar: Soul Tending from the Townships to the Lower North Shore," by Yolande Allard, and translated by Julie Miller, took place at Uplands Heritage and Cultural Centre in Lennoxville. 

A Statement from the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) (Sherbrooke, Qc., November 2, 2023)

--September 25, 2023. QAHN Directors Simon Jacobs (left) and Michèle Thibeau (right) visited Shannon this past weekend, where they presented the volunteer organizers of the renowned Shannon Irish Show with the coveted 2023 Richard Evans Award! Participants in the ceremony were delighted. Or as Deborah Kiley (second from left in this photo) put it, "thank you QAHN, and to you Simon & Michèle, for taking the time to come and present the Richard Evans award in Shannon! We were very honored to be recognized for this most prestigious award!"

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--July 26, 2023. The QAHN film crew (Heather Darch and Allison Kirkwood) is crisscrossing the Eastern Townships this week, interviewing special guests and collecting stories and footage for our next documentary series: "Raising Spirits: Exploring the cemeteries, crossroads and vanishing places of rural Quebec."

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QAHN’s Scandal Maker’s 3: The Seigneuress" The gravestone of Adelaide Gugy represents a much larger story about the wealthy Swiss Protestant Gugy family who settled in Trois-Rivières, QC., in the 18th century. The tale includes upper-class gentility, a scandalous love affair and slavery. Host Julie Miller recounts the stories of Barthélemy and Conrad Gugy, Elizabeth Wilkinson, and Rebecca and Peggy from St. James Cemetery, also known as the Old Protestant Cemetery, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.

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