Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Montreal's Black Rock Site to Get Proper Memorial

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Victor Boyle is a director with the Montreal Irish Memorial Park Foundation. (Matt D'Amours/CBC)

--March 6, 2019.

Hydro-Québec leaving space for memorial at site of mass grave of Irish refugees

larger_victor_0.jpgIrish Montrealer Victor Boyle is looking forward to having a "little piece of Ireland here in Canada" after Hydro-Québec announced what it will do for a commemorative space at the Black Rock site.

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

QAHN's featured speaker at this week's Heritage Talks conference was Louis Rastelli of Archives Montreal who gave a spirited ta

Trivia Quiz: The Papineau Family and the “Petite Nation” Seigneurie

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--February 20, 2019.

1. The Parish municipality of Saint-Angélique, from which Papineauville would separate in 1894 for 104 years, was formed in 1855 and was named after which member of Louis-Joseph Papineau’s family?
a. His mother
b. His youngest sister
c. His sister in law, the wife of Denis-Benjamin Papineau
d. His oldest daughter

Despite hellish Montreal weather, QAHN kicked off its 2019 Heritage Talks Series with a conference at the BCRC by Dorothy Willi