Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announces funding for QAHN and Townshippers' Association

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Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announces funding for QAHN and Townshippers' Association

--August 10, 2022.

It was alongside representatives from Townshippers' Association and the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) that Minister-MP Marie-Claude Bibeau announced contributions from Official Languages Canada to two organizations of the linguistic minority community of the Eastern Townships. These contributions amount to more than $1.5 million over three years.

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