Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

2023 Richard Evans Award Presentation in Shannon!

The organizers of the renowned Shannon Irish Show!

--September 25, 2023.

QAHN Directors Simon Jacobs (left) and Michèle Thibeau (right) visited Shannon this past weekend, where they presented the volunteer organizers of the renowned Shannon Irish Show with the coveted 2023 Richard Evans Award!

Participants in the ceremony were delighted. Or as Deborah Kiley (second from left in this photo) put it, "thank you QAHN, and to you Simon & Michèle, for taking the time to come and present the Richard Evans award in Shannon! We were very honored to be recognized for this most prestigious award!"

"Raising Spirits": new QAHN documentary series in the works!

Magoon Point lime kiln.

--July 26, 2023.

The QAHN film crew (Heather Darch and Allison Kirkwood) is crisscrossing the Eastern Townships this week, interviewing special guests and collecting stories and footage for our next documentary series: "Raising Spirits: Exploring the cemeteries, crossroads and vanishing places of rural Quebec."

Trivia Quiz: Murdochville: the Turbulent Past of a Young Mining Town

--March 20, 2019.

1. What mineral, discovered 20 kilometres from the Gaspésie littoral in 1909 led to the founding of Murdochville, one of Quebec’s youngest municipalities?
a. Bronze
b. Copper
c. Nickel
d. Gold

2. In what river were traces of this mineral fist discovered by Alfred Miller?
a. York river
b. Dartmouth River
c. Saint-Jean River
d. All of the above
e. Both a and c

Brand new short "Scandal Makers" doc from QAHN: "The Seigneuress"

The Seigneuress

QAHN’s Scandal Maker’s 3:

The Seigneuress"

The gravestone of Adelaide Gugy represents a much larger story about the wealthy Swiss Protestant Gugy family who settled in Trois-Rivières, QC., in the 18th century. The tale includes upper-class gentility, a scandalous love affair and slavery. Host Julie Miller recounts the stories of Barthélemy and Conrad Gugy, Elizabeth Wilkinson, and Rebecca and Peggy from St. James Cemetery, also known as the Old Protestant Cemetery, in Trois-Rivières, Quebec.