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Digital-Heritage: QAHN’s Go Live Mentorship Project

Have you ever wondered what it takes to produce compelling and well-executed online events on platforms like Zoom, Facebook, and YouTube? How about so-called “hybrid” events that feature in-person and online audiences and participants simultaneously? How do you get more professional looking video and clear, crisp audio online? How do you setup a livestream event? What kinds of budgets are needed?

Heritage Live in Stanstead: it's a wrap!

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Co-hosts Glenn Patterson and Heather Darch

The third in the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network's ongoing series of "Heritage Live" hybrid events took place on Sunday at the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead. The event was combined with the 6th annual Eastern Townships Heritage Fair, featuring kiosks by the Lac-Brome Museum, LAHMS, the Eastern Townships Resource Centre, the Bury Historical and Heritage Society, the Georgeville Historical Society, and QAHN.

Grants for Anglophone heritage and cultural organizations announced by QAHN

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The Morrin Centre in Quebec City is one of this year's grant recipients.

--Sherbrooke, September 21, 2022.

The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) has partnered with 15 heritage organizations and community groups, all core members of QAHN and from across the province, to support history and heritage research projects and exhibitions that highlight Quebec’s English-speaking communities.

Ottawa appuie la communauté anglophone des Cantons-de-l’Est

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Ottawa appuie la communauté anglophone des Cantons-de-l’Est

--le 10 août 2022.

C’est en compagnie de représentants de l’Association des Townshippers et de Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) que la députée-ministre Marie-Claude Bibeau a fait l’annonce de contributions provenant de Langues officielles Canada à deux organisations de la communauté linguistique minoritaire des Cantons-de-l’Est. Ces contributions s’élèvent à plus de 1,5 million $ sur trois ans.

Victoria Golf Club and Golf at Hotel Victoria, Aylmer, 1899-1915

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By the late 1890s, prominent Ottawa lumberman Frederick Wells Avery had become a member of the Ottawa Golf Club (the area’s first golf club, which was founded in 1891), and he had also recently discovered the pleasures of summer resort life in Aylmer, which was beginning to boom as a resort patronized by well-to-do Ottawa residents who wished to escape the city’s frequently hot, humid weather from June to August.