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Establishing a Catholic Parish in Grenville

Author: 
Abbé Michel Chamberland (translated by Gordon Rainey)

--October 3, 2017.

This is a translation of Chapter 2 - HISTOIRE DE Notre-Dame des Sept-Douleurs DE GRENVILLE, P. Q., by Abbé Michel Chamberland, published by Imprimerie de Sourds-Muet, Montreal, Qc, 1931.

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Grocery store, New Glasgow / St. Sophie, by Michael Litvack

"A wartime grocery store, 1942, in New Glasgow/St. Sophie. The store features all authentic signage of the times."

Michael Litvack, artist

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Grocery store, St. Agathe, 1940s, by Michael Litvack

"The Opera Bottling Plant was a small local distributor of soft drinks. This painting shows a local grocery store in St. Agathe in the late 1940s, with the soft drink signage."

Michael Litvack, artist

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Gontovnick chicken house, St. Sophie, by Michael Litvack

"St. Sophie was the egg producing capital of Quebec...here is one of the Gontovnick chicken houses."

Michael Litvack, artist

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Laurentians Photo Quiz: Name That Village! #2 (Answers)

Author: 
Matthew Farfan

--November 23, 2016.

1) d (now Brownsburg-Chatham)
2) c (François-Xavier-Antoine Labelle, sometimes called the "King of the North")
3) a
4) b
5) a
6) a
7) b
8) d
9) b
10) a

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Laurentians Photo Quiz: Name That Village! #2

Author: 
Matthew Farfan

--November 23, 2016.

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Laurentians Photo Quiz: Name That Village! (Answers)

Author: 
Matthew Farfan

--November 22, 2016.

1) b
2) d
3) b
4) d
5) c
6) a
7) b
8) a
9) c
10) b

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Laurentians Photo Quiz: Name That Village!

Author: 
Matthew Farfan

--November 22, 2016.

1) This early postcard shows the start of the canal in what Lower Laurentians village?
a) Carillon
b) Grenville
c) St. Andrew's East
d) Rideau

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Old Fort Rose School, New Glasgow, by Michael Litvack

The old Fort Rose School in New Glasgow, Quebec, was "a one room building with grades 1 to 7 all being taught at the same time. The teacher was Miss Smith, who taught many children in the area, from mere toddlers to teenagers. She lived directly across the road from the school, making life easier for her. (The small store is my idea, as the original house had the extra room added sometime in the 1960s.)"

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General Store, Val David, by Michael Litvack

"Here is the General Store in Val-David, exact date unknown, but depicted as of the end of the 1940s... The Shawbridge bakery truck was everywhere, supplying the countryside with fresh baked European-style bakery products. The truck would go, door to door, community to community..."

Michael Litvack, artist

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