Our lectures take place on the 3rd Thursday of the month, starting at 19:30.
Everyone is welcome.
For 2025-2026 season, our fees are the following:
Membership fee for the year (June to May): $10 per person; special fee of $5 for Beaconsfield residents
Entrance fee to our monthly lecture: $5 for non-members, free for members
The SHBBHS is privately funded.
We thank Roberta Angell for her bequest which contributes to the funding of our lectures.
Information: Contact us
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Ryan Young is a Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue City Councillor and a College Professor at John Abbott College who has done extensive research about the history of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. Every year, he leads a number of historical walking tours in the old village of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue. His talk will cover what is known about the Indigenous history of the area, the beginnings of European settlement on the western tip of the island of Montreal, and then continuing all the way through to the present day. With the aid of historical photographs, the old village buildings of Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue that still exist from the 1800s will be discussed along with the early history of Macdonald College in the early 1900s.
Presentation of the role of seigneuresses, those wives of the great landowners from the 17th to the 19th centuries. The conference features five of them: Louise de Ramezay (Sorel), Louise-Élizabeth de Joybert de Marson (Vaudreuil), Louise-Madeleine Chaussegros de Léry (Rigaud), Marguerite Dufrost de la Jemmerais, mother of Youville (Châteauguay), and Jane Ellice (Beauharnois). These ladies, through their originality and strength of character, would mark in their own way the destiny of their seigniory, shaped by the atmosphere of those times, and the environment where they lived.