Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network

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

Margaret Phillips of Cantley receives QAHN's 2022 Marion Phelps Award

2022 Marion Phelps winner Margaret Phillips

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2022 Marion Phelps Award goes to Margaret Phillips of Cantley 1889
(Sherbrooke, Qc., June 13, 2022).

The Marion Phelps Award is presented annually by the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) in recognition of outstanding long-term contributions by an individual to the preservation and promotion of Anglophone heritage in the province of Quebec.

MP Marie-Claude Bibeau stopped by for a chat at Friendship Day in Lennoxville on Saturday.