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Dementia: Your companion guide

A free new educational resource, Dementia, Your Companion Guide, was designed to help provide answers. With engaging illustrations and a friendly writing style, this approachable guide covers a wide array of topics to assist both the person living with dementia (PLWD) and their care partners. It includes information on the science and progression of dementia as well as practical advice on safety and self-care.

teenagers cool cave gathering

Teenager’s Cool Cave’s Gathering is going to happen on Wednesday, August 3rd, from 4:00 to 7:00. What is that? It’s simply a chance for young people to get to see the youth section of the library, talk about their summer, and maybe discover a few things. For 10 to 18 years old only: in the […]

2022 Annual General Meeting

You are cordially invited to attend the Annual General Meeting of Heritage Lower Saint-Lawrence on August 4th from 2 pm to 5 pm at Leggatt’s Point Presbyterian Church (48 Chem. Leggatt, Métis-sur-Mer, QC) Words from our president, results from 2021-2022 activities as well as our financial statements will be presented. Everybody is welcome. Only registered […]

Then And Now Photo Contest

Part of the Live our Heritage project is a photo contest. The theme is ‘Then and Now’ as we explore our journey from the past to the present. All photos will become part of the final exhibit that will happen during September of 2022. We want to see Métis in all its beauty from THEN to how it has changed to NOW! 

Early schooling through the years

The first schools in New France were operated by the Catholic Church as were the schools in France. Early French education in the towns of Quebec, in the 1600s, gave way to a system of small French schools that had been established by the French regime, offering basic education mainly to boys, with a strict […]