While much has been made in the media about Montreal having its first English mayor in a hundred years . Mayor Michael Applebaum is not the only English-speaking person to serve as mayor of a majority Francophone city in Quebec over the last century. In South Shore St.
Pendant toute la période de colonisation, sous les Régimes français et britannique, tout projet de développement dépendait de la construction de moulins permettant de moudre le grain pour l’alimentation et de produire des planches pour l’habitation et les activités agricoles. Le 28 octobre dernier, c’est ce qu’ont présenté, à Bolton-Est, deux des plus grands spécialistes des moulins au Québec, les archéologues Hélène Buteau et Daniel Chevrier. Cette présentation était la dernière conférence organisée en 2012, l’église Holy Trinity, par l’association Patrimoine BOLTON Heritage.
On November 17,1907, construction started on Wakeham Hall , the building that was to become the focal point for the community of Wakeham for many years.
The Woods (Burt) Store was located at the corner of Route 243 and Cemetery Road in Melbourne, Quebec. 
In 1887 the Upper Melbourne Post office, with H. L. Burt as Postmaster, was one of sixteen Richmond subscribers of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada.
John LeBoutillier, originally from the Isle of Jersey in the English Channel, became a very successful Gaspé merchant and political figure. He was originally employed by the Robin Company, important fish merchants, where he learned the skills of the cod fish trade.
I would like to write about my ancestor William Thomas. William was born in England in 1784 and joined the army. He was in the 81st Regiment of Foot. The regiment was called “the Loyal Lincoln Volunteers”. He was sent to Canada to fight the war in 1812 called the Napoleon wars. He was sent to Quebec City and took a boat all the way to Hull to protect Lower Canada against the Americans.
In the month of May, the apples blossom. In fall, the apples are ripe and ready to be picked. Apple growing has been a main industry for Frelighsburg since 1930, but apples have been grown in the area for a long time.
Frelighsburg is a good place to grow apples because of the gentile hills, the soils, and the pattern of the winds will blow in the area. Farmers began to change their farms to apple orchards.
Adelard Godbout, who was once the premier of Quebec, had an orchard in the Frelighsburg area.
George was born in Napierville, in the province of Quebec, on September 29, 1836. His father was of Irish descent, and he was a farmer and a mill owner. The early days of George’s life was spent on the family farm and in his father’s mill.
As we unravel local history and piece together the contributions of our forebears, we are often amazed at what we uncover.
Edouard Maheu maire de Paquetteville et son épouse Emilia Labbé. Tous deux natifs de Saint-Joseph de Beauce, ils arrivent à Paquetteville en 1950.
Ce petit village des Cantons de l’est, situé près de la frontière Américaine, allait devenir un endroit de prédilection pour élever une famille de 16 enfants.