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2007-08

  • November 15th, 2007   Adrian Willison, “The American Revolution on Lake Saint Louis and its Shores”; Centennial Hall
  • January 2008: Pauline Faguy-Girard, Preview of some of her findings in the Minutes of the Beaconsfield City Council meetings 1910-1957
  • February 21st 2008, Mr. Rudolf Okker, “Benedict Arnold in the West Island”,  Centennial Hall
  • March 20th, 2008: Michel Belisle, “Fief Boisbriant - Senneville”, Media Room, Beaconsfield Library
  • April 17th, 2008: Patrick Campbell and Jean-Louis Denis,” Aviation is in the air of Beaconsfield” and Défilé of TCA/Air Canada stewardesses’ uniforms, the Annexe.

2006-07

  • Mar 15th, 2007    Jean Morrison, “Living the Good Life as an oral history interviewer”
  • May 17th, 2007  Julie Boivin and Jennifer Ouellet, "Heritage Homes"; Herb Linder Annex

    Julie Boivin, architect, Bureau du patrimoine et de la toponymie, Ville de Monreal, introduced the Maisons rurales / Farm Houses project on the island of Montreal. Jennifer Ouellet, completing her M.A. in heritage conservation, made a PowerPoint presentation in French on "Les anciennes maisons de ferme de l’île de Montréal et de l’île Bizard". Also will be the launch of the new edition of our Walking Tour of Beaconsfield booklet.

2005-06

  • February 15, 2006       The Right Honourable Francis Scarpaleggia
  • November 16, 2006      Mrs Evelyn McOuat (Bremner) speaking about Douglas Bremner, her father: important figure of our city, artist, musician, philanthropist and member of the Order of Canada

  • 2004-05
  • November 17, 2004     Mme Françoise Duguay, President of the Quebec Archeologists Association, "Excavations at Pointe Caron"

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Mme Françoise Duguay, will report on her continuing excavations of the mission to the parish of Saint-Louis-du-Haut-de l’Isle, now known as Pointe Caron in Baie d’Urfé, as well as her views on the prospects for future  archaeological discoveries on Montreal Island.

  • May 18, 2005  Douglas Jack, Typonomy of the Native Peoples of this area