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The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s 2017 summer launch took place on 21 June 2017 and about 40 guests attended this 5 à 7. The Executive Director gave a speech to welcome CHQ’s members and partners and to inaugurate two small exhibitions for the 150th anniversary of Confederation and 375th anniversary of Montreal and also the new library and patrimonial gardens.

The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s 2017 summer launch took place on 21 June 2017 and about 40 guests attended this 5 à 7. The Executive Director gave a speech to welcome CHQ’s members and partners and to inaugurate two small exhibitions for the 150th anniversary of Confederation and 375th anniversary of Montreal and also the new library and patrimonial gardens.

Those attending were very interested by the exhibitions, particularly the archives collection of Collard, Collins and Dawson and the library with its books from the XVII to the XXI century. A list of these documents and archives is now available online on CHQ’s website on the “Library & Archives” page. Users will also find the guidelines for consultation.

Since August, CHQ is organizing open houses at the Hurtubise House and this event will continue this fall. For information: coord@hcq-chq.org

Regards,
Canadian Heritage of Quebec

Jeudi, le 17 mai 2017, sous le toit de la maison Hurtubise a eu lieu la conférence de Danièle Archambault, linguiste et bédéiste, Les Escaliers de Montréal; Raconter l’histoire (orale) par la bande dessiné. Cette conférence spéciale était organisée pour souligner le 375e anniversaire de Montréal. Par le biais de sa série de BDs Histoires d’escaliers, Madame Archambault a plongé l’auditoire dans les années 1950 en soulignant l’importance des supports visuels pour rappeler l’histoire des gens ou faire émerger leurs souvenirs d’où vient la nécessité de préserver le patrimoine architectural. De plus, elle a accentué le fait qu’il ne faut pas regarder le passé avec les yeux du présent. Pour cela, il faut bien documenter et restituer la vie des gens de cette époque.

Les participants de cette soirée ont été enchantés par les anecdotes que Madame Archambault racontait dans ses BDs et ont posé beaucoup de questions sur le patrimoine culturel et linguistique qui sont fort bien représentés dans les dessins et les textes de l’auteure.
Madame Archambault a également présenté son tout nouveau livre: Une année de célébrations! qui tombe à point nommé avec les diverses célébrations du 375e de Montréal. Également, du 26 au 28 mai, elle participera au Festival de la BD de Montréal.

In the context of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec organizes a special conference for its donors, partners and the public. The theme of this bilingual conference is Documenting Cultural Heritage through Visual Storytelling and will be presented by Ms. Danièle Archambault, Ph.D., linguist and cartoonist. In her comic book series Stairway Stories, she portrays with humor the daily life of two young children growing up in Montreal in the late 1950s, right before the onset of Québec Quiet Revolution.

Montreal’s Stairways are known as one of the significant elements of Montreal architectural heritage. For Ms. Archambault, visual storytelling provides an important window into a society’s cultural and linguistic heritage through their form, allowing for the combination of images of everyday life with colloquial language. Through her series of humoristic short stories, the author and researcher introduces the reader to Montreal’s architectural cultural heritage and the oral history of Quebec society at that time.

Biography:
Ms. Danièle Archambault, Ph.D., is a linguist and a cartoonist, who grew up in Montreal, Quebec where she was a tenured professor in the linguistics department at the University of Montreal until 1998. She moved to Palo Alto, California where she worked as a consultant in speech technology. In 2009, her interest in comics and bandes dessinées led her to take a class on writing graphic novels at Stanford University. She discovered a new and engaging way to share her reflections on language, culture and life.

This conference will take place in the middle of May 2017 at the Hurtubise House, 563 Côte St-Antoine Road in Westmount (corner Victoria).

This conference will last about one hour. For information: coord@hcq-chq.org

This year, the Hurtubise House celebrates the 60th anniversary of its acquisition and conservation by The Canadian Heritage of Quebec. In order to mark this anniversary, there was an indoor exhibition on the six generations of the Hurtubise family who used to live in this ancestral house.

The opening of this exhibition and the launching of the summer season took place on Thursday, June 16th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m at the Hurtubise House.

Through this exhibition, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec wanted to enhance one of the oldest houses in Westmountand reminisce on the agricultural transition to the urbanization of this municipality.

Furthermore, the summer season launch of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s properties was held during this cocktail and a presentation was given on the rentals of some of the heritage properties. Please click the following link on our website Summer-2016 to get more information on these houses.

During the summer season, several activities are also open to the public with the collaboration of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s partners, namely the Fraser Manor, the Domaine Pointe de-Saint-Vallier, the Greenwood Centre for Living History, as well as Les Éboulements Mill.

We would like to thank our guests and partners, as well as the Brigade Napoleon of North America, for attending this event.

Please do not hesitate to communicate with us for further information.

Have a great summer!

The staff and volunteers of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec

The Canadian Heritage of Quebec (CHQ) finances its activities through the summer rental of its heritage houses. The rental revenues are used for the maintenance of CHQ’s properties.

Now is the time to start making your reservation for 2016. Please note that Wi-Fi is available at all our rental properties. Summer-2016

Malgré le temps gris du lundi 22 mai, une vingtaine de personnes sont venus découvrir les nombreuses facettes de la plus vieille maison de Westmount, la Maison Hurtubise. Toujours présente depuis 278 ans, la Maison Hurtubise expose divers éléments architecturaux qui montrent l’évolution de la maison de la ferme des Hurtubise depuis sa construction en 1739 jusqu’à aujourd’hui.

Merci au Réseau du patrimoine anglophone du Québec (QAHN) et à la Fédération Histoire Québec (FHQ), d’avoir proposé la visite de la maison dans le cadre de l’excursion Reflections of the English-Speaking Heritage of Montreal lors de leur congrès du 20 au 22 mai dernier. Merci aussi à The Westmount Historical Association pour avoir organisé cette visite.

Depuis plus de six décennies, l’héritage canadien du Québec en assure la conservation.

On Sunday October 14th, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec hosted at the Hurtubise House in Westmount a heritage activity organized by the Westmount Historical Society (WHA) in collaboration with the City of Westmount. This activity was part of Montreal Architectural Heritage Campaign 2012, called Les Belles Montréalaises and organized in collaboration with the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications (MCC), Ville de Montréal and Heritage Montreal. This campaign lasted for two weeks, from September 28th to October 14th (www.operationpatrimoime.com).

Old Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Antoine, Walking Tour – click to enlarge. Old Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Antoine, Walking Tour

The purpose of this activity was to do a walking tour on the old Chemin de la Côte-Saint-Antoine to show to the participants, from the street, very interesting heritage houses located on this old road. The Hurtubise House has been used as a welcome place and CHQ’s General Manager, Jacques Archambault, welcomed each group of people and took this opportunity to present CHQ’s history, founders, missions and involvement in Quebec. CHQ also welcomed guides inside and offered them tea, sandwiches and cookies in collaboration with the Westmount Historical Society.

Approximately 65 people did the walking tours in spite of the rain. The volunteers of WHA have prepared all the documents for the walking tour and trained their volunteers to relay properly this information to visitors. All the participants were very happy with the newly restored Hurtubise House which now serves as a key place for the Westmount’s heritage sector. Since the end of the restoration project, the house looks better and CHQ has received a lot of congratulations from Westmounters.

You can also find more information about the Hurtubise House in the September 2012 Newsletter.

Hurtubuise House Guided Walking Tour

Mr. Dinu Bumbaru who is a member of the Board of Directors of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec has been awarded the 2012 Prix Gérard-Morisset by the Government of Québec. Our president, John Molson, joins you in congratulating Mr. Bumbaru for this well deserved recognition. For more information, please go to : www.heritagemontreal.org.