--January 19, 2018.
The nineteenth and early twentieth centuries saw a huge railway boom across the Eastern Townships. It was driven by the need to access raw materials, a desire for quick transportation, the growth of industry, and a mania to build more and more branch lines. Literally dozens of railway companies competed for territory and markets.
--December 19, 2017.
--December 12, 2017.
1) c
2) c
3) a
4) b
5) c
6) c
7) d
8) d
9) b
10) c
--December 12, 2017.
Before modern roads, traveling by water was often more efficient than traveling by land. Steamers of various sizes and capacities played an important role on a number of lakes in the Eastern Townships. They carried supplies and mail, and hauled logs to local sawmills. They also carried passengers -- more often than not guests at lakeside hotels, cottagers and excursionists.
--December 11, 2017.
1) b
2) b
3) a
4) d
5) b
6) c
7) b
8) b
9) a
10) c
--December 11, 2017.
As the saying goes, everyone loves a parade. Whether you're in one, or watching one from the sidelines, there's nothing quite like the sight and sound of marchers, horses, brass bands and drummers... The following quiz will test your knowledge of parades and the towns they have taken place in around the Eastern Townships over the past century and a half.
--November 20, 2017.
Quebec might not have had a system of whites-only signage, as in the southern United States during the Jim Crow era, or any immediate plans to build a wall to keep out our neighbours, but we do have a history of slavery and racism.
--October 3, 2017.
This is a translation of Chapter 2 - HISTOIRE DE Notre-Dame des Sept-Douleurs DE GRENVILLE, P. Q., by Abbé Michel Chamberland, published by Imprimerie de Sourds-Muet, Montreal, Qc, 1931.
Préservé par le temps et peu à peu recouvert par la végétation un village fantôme se cache dans la forêt de Chertsey. C’est une richesse archéologique car dans les autres villages de cette époque de la colonisation (1850) quand le centre du village s’est développé toutes les traces anciennes ont disparu.
La région de Chertsey située dans les premières montagnes des Laurentides a été colonisée au début du XIXème siècle au fur et à mesure que les basses terres de la plaine du Saint-Laurent devenaient trop peuplées.