History of Valcartier
The Life and Legend of Shannon, Quebec
by Pierre Bisonette This month, after seven years living in Shannon, I have moved to Ste-Foy. During those short years, I have made many friends and have found the Irish people of Shannon always cordially inclined toward the servicemen. In this respect, I...
The Settlement of Bourg Louis
by D. Clark McIntosh Most of the research contained in this section was written in the mid 1970s. The work, observations, and data collected was used for my undergraduate thesis for the Geography Department at McGi11 University. The original seigniory of Bourg Louis...
An Outing in the Laurentides
by Sir James McPherson Lemoine in his book Maple Leaves: History, Biography, Legend, Literature, Memoirs, Etc. VII Series, 1906, published by Frank Carrell, Quebec “Time will not number the hours We’ll spend in the woods. Where no sorrow intrudes, With the streams,...
History of Valcartier – notes from CBC telecast
Notes by Bernie Monaghan VALCARTIER – FEATURE- CBC TELECAST (Taken from C-T 196) An Irish brogue or a touch of Scottish burr in the center of French Canada is not unusual in Valcartier, a small village about twenty miles North of Quebec City. On ...
Valcartier Schools and Teachers
Valcartier Elementary School, built 1947, photographed c1977 by Bernie Monaghan, 1980s One of the oldest, if not the oldest school was situated at the foot of the Near Mill Hill, later known as the School at Todd’s. Todd’s moved there from the Fourth Range in 1864....
Sajuk’s Store
by Bernie Monaghan, 1988 One of the principal stores in Valcartier Village, in fact the only Dry Goods Store was owned and operated by James Sajuk, around the turn of the century. At that time Valcartier Village was commonly called "The Settlement. According to "old...
Place Names of Valcartier
by Bernie Monaghan, 1980s CLARK'S BRIDGE The bridge which spans the Jacques Cartier at Clark’s commonly called the Iron Bridge was built in 1891. According to some old timers the steel for the bridge had been hauled from Valcartier Station with horses up the river on...
Mills in Valcartier
by Bernie Monaghan, 1986 As Valcartier was settled in the early 1800's, most of their buildings were log structures and the logs were squared by swinging the broad axe. From what can be found of the existing structures, this work was skillfully done as was evidenced...
Fox Ranches of the Past
by Bernie Monaghan, in the 1980s After the First World War there was developed in Europe and the United States a great demand for furs of all kinds. The price increased by leaps and bounds. What was most in demand was silver fox furs as fox scarves for ladies were...
Clark’s Steel Bridge – 1892
Migration from Valcartier to Wisconsin
Music in Valcartier
Eric Corrigan, on fiddle and Bernie Monaghan, on accordian The taste for traditional Music had declined among our young people to a point where they didn’t want to hear it anymore (it had reached its lowest ebb about 1980). About this time, there appeared on the scene...
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