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 to explore her family roots, and to illuminate the vibrant community that helped to sustain the rich beauty and the natural heritage of the region.
Feindel pays tribute and gives voice to past family members whose lives are entwined with key events and institutions in Quebec’s history, including World War I, the Empress of Ireland maritime disaster, McGill’s Montreal Neurological Institute, the Local League of Nations Society, the National Council of Women and the Quebec Women’s Suffrage Association, and with the dynamic history of the English-speaking community in the Lower Saint Lawrence.
Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence is proud to collaborate with Janet Madelle Feindel to present a launch event at Maison de la Culture du Pic Champlain, 17h – 19h, 4 July 2025. This will be followed by online workshops in Fall and Winter 2025/26, in which participants from Lower Saint Lawrence will be guided to give voice to significant characters from their own histories through various performance and writing techniques. To register for the second series of these workshops, please click here.
With thanks to our funders, Canadian Heritage.
