Summer highlights from productive meetings with partners, HLSL staff. Scroll down for more photo galleries from our events throughout July and August 2025. Here’s to a wonderful summer in the Lower St. Lawrence! June 29, 2025 – Fête de la Mer, Rimouski Marina, A bilingual spoken word event hosted by HLSL, and Peggy, our heritage […]
Living Voices: Exploring Family Roots For four generations, Janet Madelle Feindel’s family spent summers at their property at Cap à l’Orignal, now known as Parc national du Bic. Following the expropriation by the government in the late twentieth century, the family lost access to the land. The artist is now returning to Lower Saint Lawrence […]
Are you creative? Entrepreneurial? Interested in your community’s vitality? We need your input!We’re looking for the perfect name to represent our vibrant new community hub — and we want your input! One suggestion currently on the table: ESPACE MÉTIS. Thumbs up or down? What are your ideas?We’re also calling for serious revenue-generating proposals to help […]
Catch Us in Rimouski This Summer! We’re excited to announce our presence at several key events across Rimouski this summer! We’d love for you to stop by one of our kiosks and say hello. Our Kiosks at the Terrasses Urbaines RimouskiDon’t miss the 12th edition of Terrasses Urbaines Rimouski, the summer event that brings a festive and […]
Colette Meehan: Artist and Craftswoman Originally from Ireland, she brought with her to the Lower St. Lawrence a love of craftwork and the arts. Creating makes Colette feel at home anywhere; she loves talking with people about their creative process. Her enamel earrings and pieces are sold at local markets and in the boutique Le […]
This month we feature David Saint-Pierre, maritime historian, whose most recent book In The Wake of the Empress of Ireland: Rescue, Salvage, and Investigations in the Summer of 1914 is set to be released in North America in August 2025. Heritage is proud to be hosting a 5 à 7 on May 30, at the […]
Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence Hosts Milestone Event for English-Speaking Community March 19 saw the launch of the first comprehensive report on the English-speaking community of the region, produced by HLSL’s Dr. Alexandra Rao and her team, which delved into the specifics of life as an English-speaker in our region. According to Rao, “understanding the experiences, […]
( français ci-dessous ) Involved with Heritage Lower St. Lawrence since its creation, and the president of its board of directors from day one, Alexander Reford is a pillar not only of our English-speaking community, but of the region as a whole. He announced his retirement from Les Jardins de Métis at the end of […]
Your HLSL Hub Tax Receipt is Now Available Exciting news! Our team has been working tirelessly on multiple fronts for the Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence (HLSL) Community Hub, and we’re thrilled to share a major milestone. We have officially set up an endowment fund with the Fondation communautaire Bas Saint-Laurent Gaspésie Les-Îles (BSLGLI). This means […]