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SUMMER JOB OFFER Community Animator
The employee hired will help serve the English-speaking community in our region. Our activities are offered in both official languages of Canada.
Get your summer read on !
Explore the fun of reading while participating to online activities. Create an online notebook, Read Ebooks, Vote in the Battle of the Books!
She said, He said
Anahareo and Archie Belaney, styling himself as Grey Owl, both included descriptions of their visit to Metis in their respective autobiographical books. The descriptions have similarities, but also some fun differences. Read for yourself! Devil in Deerskins: My Life with Grey Owl (1972) [After misunderstanding a job posting for a maid, that rather was for […]
Special Tea Time: Books You Love
Join us for our special themed virtual tea time this Thursday afternoon. We can’t wait to see you there.
Job offer: Executive Director
Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence is looking for a dynamic and multitasking individual who is willing to lead this organization dedicated to representing the Official Languages Minority Community of one of the most beautiful regions of Quebec.
Disaster! Seaplane goes down off Baie-des-Sables (1927)
Jacques de Lesseps was born in France in 1883. He developed a passion for flight and in 1909 was credited with the first night aeronautical voyage, just six years after the Wright brothers made their historic flight at Kitty Hawk. After commanding a French Air Force squadron during World War I, de Lesseps formed the […]
When Anahareo and Grey Owl Came to Metis…
By Kerry Martin (1) It’s 1929 and we are moving up Boule Rock Road, past the Allans, the Airds, and the Smiths, round a corner to the right to a junction. There we see some of our friends from further west who have come up Astle Road to the same crossroads: left to the highway […]
The Mathewsons and Pattons
“Go to Metis; no place like it!” When you come from a big family, it can be mind-boggling figuring out how everyone is related. Parents, siblings, uncles, aunts, grandparents, cousins, nieces and nephews – it’s no surprise that your head will start to spin, trying to decipher the family tree, particularly when efforts are complicated […]