Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Richmond County Museum welcomes first visitor on new QAHN / Secretariat-sponsored wheelchair ramp!

Richmond County Museum's first visitor via its new handicap ramp! Photo - Norma Husk.

--August 15, 2022.

Richmond County Historical Society president Norma Husk reports that the museum has just welcomed its very first visitor, a native of Drummondville, via the newly installed wheelchair ramp. It will be recalled that the ramp, as well as a new handicap-accessible bathroom, and other related modifications to Melbourne's historic former manse, were paid for through QAHN's "Local Built Heritage Restoration" project, which was itself funded by Quebec's Secrétariat aux relations avec les Québécois d'expression anglaise (SRQEA).

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

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

Introduction

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.