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QAHN Heritage Talks: "The History of Freemasonry in Stanstead," with Grant Myers & J-J. Rousseau (Golden Rule Lodge, Stanstead, May 25, 2019)

Another standing-room only event today in QAHN's 2019 Heritage Talks series.

Communications Matters Conference, Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead (May 17, 2019)

Johanna Tzountzouris of the Centre for Community Organizations helped to animate a session on social media, at th eColby-Curtis

Coming Up: QAHN's Heritage Talks Heads to Mysterious Golden Rule Lodge in Stanstead!

Heritage Talks heads to mysterious Golden Rule Lodge, Canada's oldest Masonic Hall, in Stanstead on May 25, 10:30 a.m.

Heritage Talks: The Fish That Got Away, with Dwane Wilkin (Colby-Curtis Museum, Stanstead, May 11, 2019)

QAHN's 2019 Heritage Talks program visited the Colby-Curtis Museum in Stanstead for a fascinating talk by Dwane Wilkin on the h

QAHN Heritage Talks Graveyard Tour (Stanbridge East, May 5, 2019)

Following a talk at the Stanbridge East Community Centre, QAHN's own (and Missisquoi Museum curator) Heather Darch took partici

QAHN programming receives support at Townshippers' Research & Cultural Foundation Awards Luncheon (April 12, 2019)

The TRCF has awarded QAHN financial support for its 2019-2020 Heritage Talks series.

2019 Heritage Talks with Dwane Wilkin (Uplands, April 2019)

QAHN's own Dwane Wilkin brought a long-lost naturalist back to life with his presentation "Consolations of the Marsh: Rememberi

Communication Matters Workshop (Stanbridge East, April 2019)

Youth 4 Youth Trivia Nite in Lennoxville (February 27, 2019)

QAHN co-sponsored a trivia nite, organized by the organization Youth 4 Youth, last week at the Golden Lion Pub in Lennoxville.

Trivia Quiz: Early Settlement and Religion in the Eastern Townships (Answers)

--February 13, 2019.

1. b. Pearl ash from the hardwood forests. Beef and dairy products would later become the main agricultural goods produced in the area.

2. b. American squatters. The Abenakis had hunted the land long before but had not settled permanently. Before 1791, the land had not been parcelled out to British or French-Canadian settlers.

3. d. St. Francis River.

4. b. It would remain an empty buffer zone between the United States and Lower Canada.

5. c. Those who owned the land had no interest in settling it.

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