Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

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

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.

This past week, Qahn was very pleased to welcome federal Official Languages minister Ginette Petipas Taylor and Agriculture min