History of Valcartier
Echoes of a Fine-Tuned Valley (video)
The Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network (QAHN) proudly presents this documentary by Valcartier photographer and filmmaker Allison Kirkwood. It was produced as part of QAHN's 2019-2020 project "A Different Tune: Musical Heritage in English-speaking Quebec" which was...
Beautiful gardens by Andree Bedard on the old Cosgrove homestead
This article appeared the the July, 2000 edition the Fleurs Plantes Jardins magazine. Although I can't read much French, it is a delight to look at the beautiful photographs of this Valcartier garden. The property was originally the homestead of John Cosgrove and Mary...
Chronological History of Valcartier and also Its Churches
This piece is believed to have been started by Bernie Monaghan and continued on by other local historians. 1647Seigneury of St-Gabriel is deeded to Robert Gifford of France1651Part of this land is given to the Huron tribe1667Remaining part of land is given to the...
Essay on Early Valcartier
The City of Quebec is so surrounded with beautiful summer resorts that such of them as are not easily reached are apt to be overlooked. Valcartier is an example of this, although only an hour's ride by auto from the city. But it is well worth visiting, this beautiful...
“The Road to Valcartier” from 1919
“Little Hamlet of Valcartier Has History” from 1931
Sickness at Valcartier – 1891
Freezing Horror in 1891 – Flynn Family
Soldiers and Sailors from the Valcartier Area
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Valcartier Camp
By Bernie Monaghan At the outbreak of World War 1 in 19l4, a large section of the Township of Valcartier was selected by the Federal Government as a site for a Military Training Camp. As a result, this decision caused the properties of a substantial number of...
Old Soldiers of Valcartier
Written by Bernie Monaghan in the 1980s. From General Education to Education of Generals. By Padre R. A. B. Maclean, writing in L’Emerillon, May 19th 1982. Anniversaries and local genealogical connections of my own family have driven me to search out the...
The Mystery of the Waterloo Veterans of Valcartier
The following article by Edgar Andrew Collard appeared in The Montreal Gazette on March 25, 1950. Collard was a Canadian journalist and historian, born in Montreal on 6 September 1911, and best known for his Montreal Gazette column “All Our Yesterdays”. The first...
List of Protestant Emigrants From Ireland – 1819
Source: Bibliotheque et Archives nationales du Quebec online Catalogue #O3Q,E21,S64,SS5,SS6,D1075 and #O3Q,E21,S64,SS5,SS6,D1041 There are two similar documents one filed in 1819 and one filed in 1821. September 21, 1819 (Entered into the Minutes 25 September 1819) To...
Orphans Placed in Valcarier Area Homes, 1847 & 1848
The names listed here have been extracted from Marianna O’Gallagher’s book “Grosse Ile, Gateway to Canada, 1832-1937”, published by Caraig Books, 1984. In the book she lists the names of 619 children that were listed in a register kept in 1847 and 1848 by...
Valcartier Deaths from Coroners’ Reports
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Testimony of Eight Valcartier Settlers
Request to Build an Oatmeal Mill – Valcartier, 1825
This is a transcription of the document below. Transcribed by Audrey Henderson, 2019 To the Honorable the Commissioners for managing and improving the Jesuits Estates. The Petition of the undersigned Proprietors and Occupiers of Land at ValCartier Fief St. Gabriel,...
Where the Heck Was “Riverside”, the House of the Neilson and Fairchild Families?
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History of Valcartier Lodge (later Mont Saint-Sacrement)
Mont Saint-Sacrament, c1950 by Bernie Monaghan The first steps were taken to form a ski center in Valcartier, when in the autumn of 1945, Timothy H. Dunn, sportsman of Quebec City, decided to purchase some properties on the Fourth Range which were considered ideal for...
The Quebec and Gosford Wooden Railway
Image from: L'Opinion publique Vol. 2, no 52 (28 décembre 1871), p. 626 — collections.banq.qc.ca - iris.banq.qc.ca - exporail.org - jacques-cartier.com Unknown Author On November 26, 1870, the loud cry of a locomotive resounded throughout the sparsely populated region...
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...