Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

Grants for Anglophone heritage and cultural organizations announced by QAHN

The Morrin Centre in Quebec City is one of this year's grant recipients.

--Sherbrooke, September 21, 2022.

The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) has partnered with 15 heritage organizations and community groups, all core members of QAHN and from across the province, to support history and heritage research projects and exhibitions that highlight Quebec’s English-speaking communities.

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).

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

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.