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History Beryl Tovim was separated from her family and sent to live i... Read More Listen Sent Away Recording Date: 18-02-2013 Storyteller: Beryl Tovim Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work The seasonal ferry between Quyon, Quebec and Fitroy Harbour,... Read More Listen River Boat Man Recording Date: 30-07-2012 Storyteller: Don McColgan Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Door-to-door milk delivery was Joe Bobinski's business. ... Read More Listen The Run Recording Date: 23-02-2013 Storyteller: Alfred Bobinski Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature Joan Bisson Dow is a household name in Eastern Quebec when i... Read More Listen The Green Divide Recording Date: 13-10-2012 Storyteller: Cynthia and Joan Dow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Love Lillian Parkinson was raised on a farm near Arundel in Quebe... Read More Listen Hello Miss Recording Date: 12-05-2011 Storyteller: Lillian Parkinson Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Joy Nugent lives in the rambling farmhouse that her great-gr... Read More Listen Cream Days Recording Date: 02-02-2013 Storyteller: Joy Nugent Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Butch Crack has a knack for cattle breeding and he figured o... Read More Listen Cow Sense Recording Date: 24-10-2012 Storyteller: David Gordon Crack Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Health Not long after she was married in 1991 Donna Vaughan began t... Read More Listen A Test of Will Recording Date: 2013-01-22 Storyteller: Donna Vaughan Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Health Monika Nelis-Dupont doesn’t feel that much different from an... Read More Listen Dream Builders Recording Date: 21-01-2013 Storyteller: Monika and Mary Nelis Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Montreal's East End district was booming in the years follow... Read More Listen East End Streets Recording Date: 05-11-2012 Storyteller: Kevin O'Donnell Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature Sam Bujold wouldn't trade his camp in the Canadian woods for... Read More Listen Bucket List Recording Date: 10-11-2012 Storyteller: Carolyn Taylor & Sam Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Gloria Williamson was just 37 years old when she collapsed a... Read More Listen Gloria's Wish Recording Date: 27-02-2013 Storyteller: Mary Bercy Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Family Pearl Jones worried that her only child Steve was too shy fo... Read More Listen Starring as Steve Recording Date: 02-28-2013 Storyteller: Steve Jones Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Love Sixteen years ago Catherine Tactuk had no idea that she woul... Read More Listen Coming North Recording Date: 23-01-2013 Storyteller: Catherine Tactuk Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Love Growing up in Port Daniel West on the Baie des Chaleurs, Joa... Read More Listen The Choice Recording Date: 13-10-2012 Storyteller: Joan Dow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family For decades, St. Dominic's Church parish served as the spiri... Read More Listen MacKenzie's Parish Recording Date: 22-02-2013 Storyteller: Edna-May MacKenzie Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Work Working wood by hand requires time-tested skills and a few b... Read More Listen The Cutting Edge Recording Date: 17-07-2012 Storyteller: Donald Healy Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Winnie Campbell was just 17 when she eloped with 21 year-old... Read More Listen Baker's Dozen Recording Date: 30-03-2013 Storyteller: Lorn & Winnie Turriff Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Cooks, butlers, maids and gardeners: Grand 19th-century hous... Read More Listen Big House Recording Date: 13-04-2013 Storyteller: Evelyn Bufton Annett Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family It was visiting Brome Fair as a youngster during the Great D... Read More Listen Rare Breed Recording Date: 05-30-2011 Storyteller: Sherman Young Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Nature Ken Bouchard’s father was killed in a plane crash when Ken w... Read More Listen Twelve Days to Quebec Recording Date: 30-08-2012 Storyteller: Ken Bouchard Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Arnim Hector came from the Caribbean to help build Canada. ... Read More Listen A Welder's Tale Recording Date: 27-02-2013 Storyteller: Arnim Hector Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History Verna Asbil’s parents weren’t rich, but there was always foo... Read More Listen View From Mount Loyal Recording Date: 12-05-2011 Storyteller: Verna Asbil Negm Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work From the time of the first French colonies in Canada, the sm... Read More Listen The Village Oven Recording Date: 19-05-2012 Storyteller: Michael Hayes Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Health Elizabeth Hebert touched a lot of people and packed a lot of... Read More Listen Elizabeth's Story Recording Date: 22-01-2013 Storyteller: Bev Hebert Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History As a teenager Kate Leblanc wondered why her father kept an o... Read More Listen Six Who Served Recording Date: 2012-10-12 Storyteller: Kate LeBlanc Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature In recent years Canada has moved far from the vanguard of en... Read More Listen Mill Rebel Recording Date: 11-10-12 Storyteller: Peggy Willett Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History By the time she was in her mid-thirties, Hulda Erfle had liv... Read More Listen Queen of Ladysmith Recording Date: 29-07-2012 Storyteller: Gerda & Hulda Erfle Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Love In the winter of 1944 a young farmer named John Fallow stopp... Read More Listen Mud Pie Recording Date: 11-10-2012 Storyteller: John & Blanche Fallow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Religion In 2009 Linda Spear began her journey to become the Quebec’s... Read More Listen Woman of the Cloth Recording Date: 21-01-2013 Storyteller: Linda Spear Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Grand Cascapedia River figures among Canada's most celebrate... Read More Listen Hooked Recording Date: 10-12-2012 Storyteller: Lina Condo Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work The little community of Venosta in the Gatineau River Valley... Read More Listen Doctor Hot Rod Recording Date: 29-08-2012 Storyteller: John McLaughlin Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

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History

Beverly Blagrave will never forget what it was like to grow ...

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Rawdon Barn Fire

Recording Date: 12-05-2011

Storyteller: Beverly Prud'Homme

Province: Quebec | Language: English

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Gaspesian Heritage Spotlight

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History

Wakeham Hall was a symbol and centre of anglophone community...

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Wakeham Hall

Recording Date: 01-03-2013

Storyteller: Jean Goodier

Province: Quebec | Language: English

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Nature

Dorothy Phillips delved into her ancestors' diaries for ...

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Animal Power

Recording Date: 03-03-2013

Storyteller: Jane Allen

Province: Quebec | Language: English

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Religion

William Arnold emigrated to Canada from Ireland in the early...

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Arnold's Mission

Recording Date: 15-03-2013

Storyteller: Jean Goodier

Province: Quebec | Language: English

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Special projects

Learn more about other heritage initiatives in Quebec...

StoryNet Documentaries

The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network supports the art of documentary st...

Our Story in One Hundred Objects

Stories dwell in everyday things. The milk bottle left by the door at Gra...

The Heritage Trails Series

The Heritage Trails Series offers a collection of historical info, maps a...

History Beryl Tovim was separated from her family and sent to live i... Read More Listen Sent Away Recording Date: 18-02-2013 Storyteller: Beryl Tovim Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work The seasonal ferry between Quyon, Quebec and Fitroy Harbour,... Read More Listen River Boat Man Recording Date: 30-07-2012 Storyteller: Don McColgan Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Door-to-door milk delivery was Joe Bobinski's business. ... Read More Listen The Run Recording Date: 23-02-2013 Storyteller: Alfred Bobinski Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature Joan Bisson Dow is a household name in Eastern Quebec when i... Read More Listen The Green Divide Recording Date: 13-10-2012 Storyteller: Cynthia and Joan Dow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Love Lillian Parkinson was raised on a farm near Arundel in Quebe... Read More Listen Hello Miss Recording Date: 12-05-2011 Storyteller: Lillian Parkinson Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Joy Nugent lives in the rambling farmhouse that her great-gr... Read More Listen Cream Days Recording Date: 02-02-2013 Storyteller: Joy Nugent Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Butch Crack has a knack for cattle breeding and he figured o... Read More Listen Cow Sense Recording Date: 24-10-2012 Storyteller: David Gordon Crack Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Health Not long after she was married in 1991 Donna Vaughan began t... Read More Listen A Test of Will Recording Date: 2013-01-22 Storyteller: Donna Vaughan Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Health Monika Nelis-Dupont doesn’t feel that much different from an... Read More Listen Dream Builders Recording Date: 21-01-2013 Storyteller: Monika and Mary Nelis Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Montreal's East End district was booming in the years follow... Read More Listen East End Streets Recording Date: 05-11-2012 Storyteller: Kevin O'Donnell Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature Sam Bujold wouldn't trade his camp in the Canadian woods for... Read More Listen Bucket List Recording Date: 10-11-2012 Storyteller: Carolyn Taylor & Sam Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Gloria Williamson was just 37 years old when she collapsed a... Read More Listen Gloria's Wish Recording Date: 27-02-2013 Storyteller: Mary Bercy Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Family Pearl Jones worried that her only child Steve was too shy fo... Read More Listen Starring as Steve Recording Date: 02-28-2013 Storyteller: Steve Jones Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Love Sixteen years ago Catherine Tactuk had no idea that she woul... Read More Listen Coming North Recording Date: 23-01-2013 Storyteller: Catherine Tactuk Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Love Growing up in Port Daniel West on the Baie des Chaleurs, Joa... Read More Listen The Choice Recording Date: 13-10-2012 Storyteller: Joan Dow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family For decades, St. Dominic's Church parish served as the spiri... Read More Listen MacKenzie's Parish Recording Date: 22-02-2013 Storyteller: Edna-May MacKenzie Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Work Working wood by hand requires time-tested skills and a few b... Read More Listen The Cutting Edge Recording Date: 17-07-2012 Storyteller: Donald Healy Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family Winnie Campbell was just 17 when she eloped with 21 year-old... Read More Listen Baker's Dozen Recording Date: 30-03-2013 Storyteller: Lorn & Winnie Turriff Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Cooks, butlers, maids and gardeners: Grand 19th-century hous... Read More Listen Big House Recording Date: 13-04-2013 Storyteller: Evelyn Bufton Annett Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Family It was visiting Brome Fair as a youngster during the Great D... Read More Listen Rare Breed Recording Date: 05-30-2011 Storyteller: Sherman Young Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Nature Ken Bouchard’s father was killed in a plane crash when Ken w... Read More Listen Twelve Days to Quebec Recording Date: 30-08-2012 Storyteller: Ken Bouchard Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Arnim Hector came from the Caribbean to help build Canada. ... Read More Listen A Welder's Tale Recording Date: 27-02-2013 Storyteller: Arnim Hector Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History Verna Asbil’s parents weren’t rich, but there was always foo... Read More Listen View From Mount Loyal Recording Date: 12-05-2011 Storyteller: Verna Asbil Negm Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work From the time of the first French colonies in Canada, the sm... Read More Listen The Village Oven Recording Date: 19-05-2012 Storyteller: Michael Hayes Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

Health Elizabeth Hebert touched a lot of people and packed a lot of... Read More Listen Elizabeth's Story Recording Date: 22-01-2013 Storyteller: Bev Hebert Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History As a teenager Kate Leblanc wondered why her father kept an o... Read More Listen Six Who Served Recording Date: 2012-10-12 Storyteller: Kate LeBlanc Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Nature In recent years Canada has moved far from the vanguard of en... Read More Listen Mill Rebel Recording Date: 11-10-12 Storyteller: Peggy Willett Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	History By the time she was in her mid-thirties, Hulda Erfle had liv... Read More Listen Queen of Ladysmith Recording Date: 29-07-2012 Storyteller: Gerda & Hulda Erfle Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5
Love In the winter of 1944 a young farmer named John Fallow stopp... Read More Listen Mud Pie Recording Date: 11-10-2012 Storyteller: John & Blanche Fallow Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Religion In 2009 Linda Spear began her journey to become the Quebec’s... Read More Listen Woman of the Cloth Recording Date: 21-01-2013 Storyteller: Linda Spear Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work Grand Cascapedia River figures among Canada's most celebrate... Read More Listen Hooked Recording Date: 10-12-2012 Storyteller: Lina Condo Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5	Work The little community of Venosta in the Gatineau River Valley... Read More Listen Doctor Hot Rod Recording Date: 29-08-2012 Storyteller: John McLaughlin Province: Quebec \| Language: English 1 2 3 4 5

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