Christmas Musical Presentation
By the ladies of the In-a-Chord Trio plus Laura Barr and by the eight men of the Yamaska Merry Gentlemen Ensemble with accompanist John Barr.
The ladies of the In-a-Chord Trio share a common love of music and extensive choral experience. Their passion for singing has been evident to the many audiences in our region who have heard them perform over the past year. Over the course of the year their program was broadened to take advantage of the rich voice of well known musician Laura Barr whose husband John accompanies them.
The Yamaska Merry Gentlemen Ensemble, a group of eight men plus accompanist John Barr, was formed a little over a year ago. Coming from various backgrounds, they all have at least one thing in common—they love to sing. They have performed for seniors’ residences and community radio as well as the Canadian Club.
Raheel Raza, Filmmaker, Journalist, Diversity Consultant, Anti-Racism Activist.
Is There a Clash of Civilizations?
Author of THEIR JIHAD…NOT MY JIHAD (PDF), Raheel Raza is a public speaker, Consultant for Interfaith and Intercultural diversity, documentary film maker, freelance journalist and founder of SAMA’ (Sacred Arts ad Music Alliance). She has recently been appointed to Public Interest Committee. Raza started writing at a young age because she grew up in a culture where women were supposed to “be seen and not heard.” Travelling extensively throughout the Middle East, Europe, Far East and North America, Raza brings a fresh new global perspective to her mandate “there is unity in diversity”. Raza bridges the gap between East and West, promoting cultural and religious diversity. She has appeared in print, on television and radio to discuss diversity, harmony and interfaith. In a presentation to Members of Parliament and international diplomats at the House of Commons, Raza received a standing ovation for her speech called “Celebrating our Differences”. An outspoken advocate for gender equality and an activist for women’s rights internationally, she has appeared many times in print, radio and television media to reveal and debate Canadian issues related to media, diversity, gender and immigrants. Raza has received many awards for her work to build bridges of understanding. She is a recipient of the City of Toronto’s Constance Hamilton Award and is the first South Asian woman to narrate a CBC documentary on “Passionate Eye”. A fervent advocate for human rights, Raza is the first Muslim woman in Canada to lead mixed gender prayers. Growing up in a culture where women were supposed to “be seen and not heard”, Raza turned to writing at a young age and is a freelance journalist. Travelling extensively throughout the world, Raza brings a fresh global perspective to her mandate “there is unity in diversity”. Raza has spoken at places of worship, the private sector, the Justice Department, School Boards and government institutions. She has also been invited to speak at Universities in USA and Canada, including Harvard and Columbia.
Fall Tour
Cruise Lake Memphremagog with Escapades Memphremagog aboard the Grand Cru and enjoy a gourmet meal in its large inside restaurant. With luck, there will still be a blaze of fall colour on the hills.
Bus leaves Mystic at 9:45 AM.
Bus leaves Cowansville at 10:00 AM - from the Canadian Tire parking lot.
Cruiise is from 11:30 AM - 2:30 PM, leaving from Magog. Lunch will be served on board.
After the cruise we will have 45 minutes to visit either:
(a) downtown Magog, or
(b) a towel and bath factory outlet
Return to Mystic at 5:45 PM
Cost: $115.00 including bus and lunch.
Joel Yanofsky, Author, Journalist, Book Reviewer.
Bad Animals: A Father's Accidental Education in Autism (How to Write a Memoir of How I Wrote one Anyway)
Joel Yanofsky is a Canadian novelist and literary columnist. Born in Montreal, Quebec, he grew up in the Laval suburb of Chomedey, where his parents had moved from the Montreal Jewish neighbourhood around St. Urbain Street. Yanofsky’s reviews and articles have appeared in The Village Voice, Canadian Geographic,[1] Chatelaine, The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star and The Montreal Gazette, among others. He has earned the dubious honour of having once been evicted from the Ritz Carlton bar in Montreal in the company of John Updike.[citation needed] He is also a journalism instructor at Concordia university. His most popular books are Jacob’s Ladder, Homo Erectus: And Other Popular Tales of True Romance and Mordecai and Me : An Appreciation of a Kind.
Jennifer Stoddart, Lawyer, Leader and Privacy Commissioner of Canada
Protecting Your Personal Information and Yourself in a Digital Age
.Jennifer Stoddart was appointed Canada’s Privacy Commissioner by the Governor in Council, effective December 1, 2003, on unanimous resolutions adopted by both the House of Commons and the Senate, for a seven-year term.
Since taking on this role, Commissioner Stoddart has overseen a number of important investigations, including those concerning the privacy policies and practices of the popular social networking site Facebook and a massive data breach at U.S. retail giant TJX, which owns Winners and HomeSense stores in Canada. The Commissioner also led efforts to help private sector organizations understand their obligations under the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) in the first years after the legislation came into force. She is working to promote online privacy for young people through the Office’s new website, www.youthprivacy.ca.
Given Canada’s international trade patterns, Commissioner Stoddart has become involved in global privacy issues through her work with international organizations such as the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), which are examining ways to protect and enhance privacy rights on a global scale. In 2007, she hosted the 29th International Conference of Data Protection and Privacy Commissioners, which brought together some of the world’s foremost data protection experts.
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Commissioner Stoddart was previously President of the Commission d’accès à l’information du Québec, an organization responsible for both access to information and the protection of personal information. She has held several senior positions in public administration for the Governments of Québec and Canada, including at the Canadian and the Québec Human Rights Commissions. Commissioner Stoddart has been active in the Canadian Bar Association, the Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice, and has also lectured on history and legal sciences at the Université du Québec à Montréal and McGill University. She is a member of the Québec Bar.
Orford Express
Orford Express tour from Sherbrooke to Eastman and return via Magog, a leisurely trip with an excellent dinner served on board.
2011-2012—THIS IS OUR THIRTY FIRST ANNIVERSARY
HAPPY BIRTHDAY
The Canadian Club of the Yamaska Valley began its meetings in 1980 and has been operating continuously since then.
Jody Robinson, Archivist, Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Bishop’s University
Keeping it in the Family: Tracing your Family Roots and Preserving your Family Papers
The previously announced program with Jennifer Stoddart, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner, has had to be canceled because of the election campaign. This gives us an opportunity to hear Jody Robinson whom we missed when our March meeting was canceled due to severe weather.
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Jody Robinson was raised on a dairy farm near Lennoxville, Quebec. After receiving a DEC in Liberal Arts from Champlain Regional College, she attended Bishop’s University where she graduated in 2005 with a BA in History and a minor in Sociology. Following graduation, she worked with heritage organizations in the Eastern Townships, including the Colby-Curtis Museum and the Compton County Historical Museum Society. In 2006, she was hired as Archivist by the Eastern Townships Resource Centre.where she works to preserve the history of the English-speaking community of the Eastern Townships and provide assistance to genealogists and researchers.
As part of her work, Jody Robinson is involved with, or belongs to, the following organizations: Réseau des services d’archives du Québec, Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, Fédération Histoire Québec, Canadian Heritage Information Network and Canadian Council of Archives.
Our Annual Spring Luncheon will precede the meeting.
For luncheon tickets, which are $25.00 for members and $35.00 for non-members, call (450) 243-6524
To attend only the meeting and tea and coffee afterwards, there is a charge of $10.00 for non-members.
Henry P. Schreiber, chemist, physicist, researdh scientist, recearch professor.
The Serendipity Factor in Science
The goal of science is relentlessly to enrich our fund of knowledge and to replace myth by truth. Much of the progress made by science is the result of painstaking and dedicated work. Surprisingly, however, quite a few major successes in science have come about by sheer, blind luck. We will note a few of these occasions, and focus attention on two in particular. Only those attending the talk will know what they are.
Professor Schreiber was born in the Czech Republic “terribly long ago,” but has been a proud Canadian citizen since 1946 and a resident of Knowlton, Quebec since 2006, the year he retired from his profession. This was based on his PhD and MSc degrees in physics and chemistry and entailed some 15 years as a research scientist in industry, followed by a career in Academe.
He was research professor (Chem. Eng.) at l’Université de Montréal’s Ecole Polytechnique and honorary research Fellow (Chem.) at McGill. He wrote gobs of scientific papers (over 230), holds 20 patents and even contributed to, or edited, 6 books. Lectures took him far afield (US, Sweden, France, England, Germany, Japan, Thailand, etc.), eventually tiring out both himself and his audiences (?). Consequently, he now wastes time digging divots at golf courses, playing tennis (badly) skiing (pretty well) and organizing discussion groups, hosting Musical entertainments, and presiding over Henry’s Music and Musings on CIDI, our local radio station..
Jody Robinson, Archivist, Eastern Townships Resource Centre, Bishop’s University [CANCELED]
Keeping it in the Family: Tracing your Family Roots and Preserving your Family Papers.
** THIS EVENT IS CANCELED DUE TO SEVERE WINTER WEATHER **
Jody Robinson was raised on a dairy farm near Lennoxville, Quebec. After receiving a DEC in Liberal Arts from Champlain Regional College, she attended Bishop’s University where she graduated in 2005 with a BA in History and a minor in Sociology. Following graduation, she worked with heritage organizations in the Eastern Townships, including the Colby-Curtis Museum and the Compton County Historical Museum Society. In 2006, she was hired as Archivist by the Eastern Townships Resource Centre.where she works to preserve the history of the English-speaking community of the Eastern Townships and provide assistance to genealogists and researchers.
As part of her work, Jody Robinson is involved with, or belongs to, the following organizations: Réseau des services d’archives du Québec, Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, Fédération Histoire Québec, Canadian Heritage Information Network and Canadian Council of Archives.
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Christmas Reception
Yamaska Merry Gentlemen Ensemble
This Christmas Season we welcome the Yamaska Merry Gentlemen Ensemble, accompanied by John Barr on the piano. This is a newly formed group of ten men from the Yamaska Region who love to sing and make merry. At this, their premiere performance, they will present a program of Christmas music, inviting the audience to join them in singing some of the better known carols..
The tea and coffee after the presentation will be served with home baked squares and cookies.
Richard Shuttleworth, Civil engineer (retired), Historian, Dedicated “Piper”
Bagpipes of Great Britain and Ireland
And you thought they only came from Scotland!
Come to hear, see and examine five different types of bagpipe, only one of which is native to Scotland. Learn how bagpipes came out of the mists of time to create a legacy of hauntingly beautiful traditional music; a tapestry that interweaves different cultures.
Richard Shuttleworth first started to play the bagpipes at the age of 15 when he joined the Hazley Mansfield Pipe Band in his native Bradford, Yorkshire, UK. At age 19, he left the band due to pressure of studies towards his chosen career of civil engineering. Immediately following this, the band won its first major competition, perhaps a reflection on Richard’s talent as a piper?? Undeterred, his interest has expanded to include many of the lesser-known bagpipes that used to be played in the U.K. and in Ireland and which have undergone a renaissance over the past 20 or 30 years.
A resident of Philipsburg, Quebec, Richard has attended numerous workshops in Canada, the USA and in Britain both as a student and as a tutor. He is currently chairman of the Pipers’ Gathering Inc., a Vermont based not-for-profit organization whose aim is to further the playing of bellows-blown bagpipes through the presentation of workshops and symposiums.
Heather Keith, Activist, Author, Well-Known Townshipper
Empowering African Grandmothers: How the Stephen Lewis Foundation Does It
Heather Keith is a long time political activist who was raised in Montreal but raised her own family in the Eastern Townships. She has served as municipal councilor in two municipalities, worked as a building and septic tank inspector, and municipal secretary treasurer. She was president of Townshippers Association on two occasions and served as chair of the Association’s health and social services committee for several years. She operated a Bed and Breakfast and worked as a real estate agent in the Owl’s Head area. After the 1995 referendum Heather co-authored a book with Sharon McCully entitled QUEBEC: Bonjour, eh? She currently sits on the access to English services committee of the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Sherbrooke. Heather acquired her degree in social work from McGill in 2006 and is currently taking courses in gerontology at the University of Sherbrooke.
Louise Abbott, Photographer, Author, Filmmaker.
Louise Abbott is a writer, photographer, and filmmaker in the Eastern Townships of Quebec. She has concentrated on documenting the history and contemporary life of rural and indigenous communities in eastern Canada, and investigating environmental issues that affect these communities. Her books include The Coast Way, The French Shore, A Country So Wild and Grand, The Heart of the Farm, and Eeyou Istchee: Land of the Cree. Her films include The Pinnacle and the Poet, Giving Shelter, Crisscrossing Space and Time, and A Journey to Remember. Abbott is a partner in a multimedia production company called Rural Route Communications (www.ruralroutecommunications.com) and in an art gallery-cum-cultural centre called Studio Georgeville (www.studiogeorgeville.com).
At this, our first meeting of the 2010-2011 season, Louise Abbott will show her documentary film Giving Shelter: Barns of the Eastern Townships
Spring Tour - 2010: CANCELLED
SPRING TOUR CANCELLED
Next meeting: Monday, September 13, 2010: 2:00 PM
At the Auberge West Brome
Programme to be announced.
Raymund Wellinger - Professor, Microbiologist, Geneticist
Will humans ever be immortal? Able to live forever? The when, the how and he why not!"
Raymund Wellinger is a full Professor in the Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases at the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Sherbrooke and also a Chercheur-National recognized by the FRSQ (Fonds de la Recherche en Santé du Québec). He is part of a successful research group investigating RNP particles, member of the Oncology group at the Clinical Research Center of the CHUS and co-directs a large scale effort directed at elucidating RNA splicing at a genomic level, funded in part by Genome Canada. Raymund Wellinger received his training at the Swiss Institute of Experimental Cancer Research in Lausanne (Switzerland) and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, (Seattle USA, 1987-1993), being part of one of the world’s leading laboratories working on telomere biology. In the past, he established new methods to analyze telomere dynamics and was one of the first to describe chromosomal DNA end-structures and telomere-associated proteins in eukaryotes. Raymund Wellinger collaborates with top laboratories around the world and his research resulted in five patents and over twenty publications in prestigious journals like Cell, Science, Nature Genetics, Molecular and Cellular Biology and EMBO Journal. Raymund Wellinger is a member of the board of directors of the FRSQ and played an active role as a member of peer review committees for research grants submitted to the NIH (USA), the CIHR (Canada) and the FRSQ. Raymund Wellinger also often reviews manuscripts submitted to scientific journals such as Nature, Science, Cell, Genes and Development, Molecular and Cellular Biology and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA.
Telomeres are the structures at the very ends of the linear chromosomes that make up our genome. These structures are essential for the integrity of chromosomes and cell survival. For example, without telomeres, chromosome ends are recognized as broken DNA, which, if left unrepaired, can ultimately lead to cell death. Telomere function requires molecules involved in the maintenance and synthesis of telomeric repeats, as well as molecules involved in protecting the ultimate end of telomeres, so called capping molecules. In addition, telomeric DNA is composed of special repeated elements. The presence of a certain minimal number of these telomeric repeats is also essential for telomere function. For humans, the number of these telomeric repeats is a crucial determinant for the replicative potential of cells. During each cell division, part of this telomeric DNA is lost, causing telomeres to shorten. After a certain number of divisions, normal somatic cells succumb to senescence: telomeres are critically short, have probably lost critical functional elements and, as a consequence, chromosomes become unstable and the cells die (the Hayflick limit). In contrast, cancerous cells have overcome this problem during their progression to immortalization: their telomeres do not shorten upon cell division and remain functional, providing cancer cells with an unlimited division potential. Telomere-shortening or -destabilization is therefore one of the most promising way of interfering with the growth of all types of cancer cells.
The research in Raymund Wellinger’s lab concerns various issues related to telomere biology. He wants to understand how telomere duplication is coordinated with the duplication of the rest of the genome and also, how the telomeres protect chromosome ends from being detected as DNA damage. Furthermore, he has initiated a project aimed at the elucidation of how a special enzyme, called telomerase, works inside a cell.
David Lank - Academic, Businessman, Order of Canada Recipient, ‘Sometime’ Thespian
"The America that Vanished: Impact of Environmental Degradation"
David Morris Lank, CM, A.B., F.R.S.A.
Using artwork, photography and texts from the 19th century, Prof. Lank will Illustrate the impact on environmental degradation in North America and its impact on the flora and fauna.
David M. Lank, Director Emeritus of the Dobson Centre for Entrepreneurial Studies in the Desautels Faculty of Management at McGill University is a retired senior partner of Canada’s oldest investment counsel firm. He started his professional career with DuPont International in Geneva, Switzerland in 1960, returning to Canada as Deputy Head of Operations for Expo ‘67, Canada’s World’s Fair. He subsequently served on numerous corporate boards both in the United States, Canada, and Europe. He is currently chairman of the Executive Committee and co-founder of Helix Investments, one of Canada’s premier venture capital organizations. He served for twenty years as a founding director of Mirabaud Canada, a private Genevese bank.
During a ten-year term as Chairman, he initiated and completed the renovation and major expansion of the McCord Museum of Canadian History. Mr. Lank is past president of the McGill Associates, ex-governor of Lower Canada College and Bishop’s University, past-chairman of the Friends of the Library of Concordia University, former member of the Fine Arts Advisory Board of Concordia, where for five years he taught the history of animal art from cave painting to the present. He was formerly Adjunct Curator of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History. He has served on the boards of Studio de Musique Ancienne de Montréal, I Musici, and the McGill Chamber Orchestra, and numerous other cultural institutions. He is a Fellow of the Explorer’s Club of New York, the Royal Society of Arts in London, formerly a Fellow of the Grolier Club, the American Antiquarian Society and the Angler’s Club. He was Chairman of the Atlantic Salmon Association for 10 years and was recently inducted into the Atlantic Salmon Hall of Fame. He has starred in three major productions at Centaur Theatre and has been featured in numerous TV programs and films.
He received his degree from Princeton University (AB ’60), and attended the Université de Grenoble. He has been a visiting lecturer on numerous subjects at more than fifteen universities. Author of more than 45 books, hundreds of articles and museum catalogues on numerous subjects, he has nevertheless concentrated on natural history and wilderness art. As a member of the selection committee of Animals in Art at the Royal Ontario Museum, he first became aware of the art of Léo-Paul Robert during that ground-breaking exhibition in 1975. In 1985 he gave the New York Historical Society’s lecture celebrating the bi-centennial of the birth of John James Audubon, and in 1998 was the curator of the touring exhibition Audubon’s Wilderness Palette - The Birds of Canada. In 2000, he furnished most of the material for the catalogue for the British Museum’s retrospective of the work of Joseph Wolf. He has written books on Thomas Bewick, Joseph Wolf, Ray Harris-Ching, George McLean, and Lars Jonsson.
In 1996 he was awarded the Order of Canada.
Donald Davison - Banker, Author, Historian, “Music Man”
Donald J. Davison has a Bachelor of Commerce from Concordia and a Master of Business Administration from the University of Western Ontario. In addition he is an Accredited Financial Counselor and has a Queen’s Commission in the Canadian Army. His career experiences include banking, lending and real estate development.
In retirement, he lectured and counselled the public service in financial planning and counselled bankrupts into recovery. To support his counselling, he wrote and published a non-fiction self help book entitled Take Control of your Money. When he came to Knowlton from Ottawa eight years ago, he wrote an historical novel Raise the Flag & Sound the Cannon and participated in the theatrical production of Chickasaw that was based on his novel.
For many years, Don has been a tutor to disadvantaged young adults. He is currently Vice-President of the Yamaska Literacy Counsel.
He sings with several church and regional choirs, and has been active in local theatre.
See also: http://www.raisetheflag.ca/
Christmas Reception
In celebration of the season, Evie Johnston-Main, Susan Reininger and friends will lead a concert of Christmas music and carols. This will be followed by a social gathering with tea, coffee and homemade squares.
Come and join us for our last meeting for 2009.
Leslie McCorkill, Historian, Genealogist, Lecturer, Retired High School Teacher
"The Japanese in Canada: Early 1900's to the Second World War"
In the early 1950’s, more than 25% of the student population at Farnham Intermediate School was Japanese. Where had so many Japanese students and their families come from? Why had they come to Farnham? What happened to them after they arrived?
We shall look at the arrival of the Japanese in British Columbia in the early 1900’s—young men who came in search of work in the fishing, mining and railway building industries. Almost from the very beginning, they were treated very badly and blatant instances of racial discrimination were evident.
During World War II, approximately 22,000 Japanese in British Columbia were forced to leave the coast and move into internment camps in the interior of the province. We shall look at what life was like in 6 of the more important internment camps and the horrific conditions that existed. Former Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, described the Japanese evacuation as “one of the great scandals of Canadian history “.
When the war ended, the Japanese in British Columbia were given two options: return to Japan or move to areas east of the Rockies. We shall examine the story of one young Japanese girl who was faced with having to make just that decision. And what happened to the houses and the farms and the property that had been left behind following the evacuation to the internment camps? This will be another part of this shocking and disturbing story of the Japanese in Canada.
FALL TOUR - October 2009
Tuesday, 20 October, 2009
Bus will leave Canadian Tire, Cowansville, at 7:30 AM and Mystic at 8:00 AM
9:30 AM Moulin Legaré, a working flour mill (snack available)
10:15 AM Pick up a guide for tour of Morin Heights ans St. Sauveur
1:00 PM Lunch: hot and cold buffet at Manoir St. Sauveur
2:15 PM Shopping at the factory outlets in St. Saureur for a couple of hours and then head home
COST: $93.00 per person if paid by cash or cheque.
The most interesting part of this tour was the visit to the Moulin Legaré. This a water-driven flour mill built in 1762, prior to the American Revolution, and still operating today with its original equipment and its original mill stone. The only significant change is the replacement of the original water wheel by three water turbines. The mill turns out both wheat flour and buckwheat flour. The former may be either whole wheat or partially refined. Locally grown wheat is used as much as possible although, when the local supply is exhausted, wheat is purchased from Ontario or from further west.
Michael Goldbloom, Labour Lawyer, Newspaper Publlisher, University Principal
Michael Goldbloom was born in Montreal, took his undergraduate degree at Harvard University in Modern European History and Literature and completed his law degrees at McGill University: Bachelor of Civil Law in 1978 and Bachelor of Common Law in 1979. Mr. Goldbloom began his professional career in 1981 as a labour lawyer. In 1991, he became President and CEO of the Montreal YMCA. Then , from 1994 to 2001, he was Publisher of The Gazette. After this, following a year as a Visiting Scholar at the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada he was named Deputy Publisher of the Toronto Star and a year later its Publisher. In 2007, he was appointed Vice-Principal (Public Affairs) and Senior Fellow in Media and Public Policy at McGill University. Mr. Goldbloom’s most recent appointment as Principal and Vice-Chancellor of Bishop’s University is for a five year term which began on August 1st, 2008.
Bill Haugland - Author, News Reporter, Ex-TV Anchorman
"Taking a Cue from Johnny Carson: H-e-e-e-r's Haughland!!"
Bill Haughland is perhaps best known as the recently retired Anchor of the CTV evening news in Montreal. After 46 years in the radio and TV business, including 29 as news anchor, he retired to his home in Vermont at the end of November 2006. His house, built in 1860, belonged to his maternal grandfather and holds many happy memories of childhood vacations and holidays spent there.
This year, he finished writing a mystery entitled, “Mobile 9,” that he has been working on since retirement, and had it published this spring. The story is about a young TV reporter in the 1960s whose life suddenly becomes more exciting than he could have imagined.
Bill Haugland attended elementary school in NDG and Macdonald High School in Ste. Anne de Bellevue. After a year and a half at Sir George Williams University, his father arranged an audition at CFOX Radio where Gord Sinclair recommended him to CJAD which, in turn sponsored him to a Canadian Association of Broadcasters course at Ryerson Institure where he finished sixth in a class of 150. That summer, 1961, he was hired as a mail boy at CFCF Radio but, within six months was taken on in the news room. In 1964, CFCF Radio joined the TV station and Bill became a TV reporter and, in due course, the anchor of the six o’clock evening news where he served until his retirement in 2006.
In retirement, he has been busy writing his book (Mobile 9), looking after ailing parents and pursuing his love of music (guitar and piano) and painting. He and his wife, Linda, had four children, one of whom, Hugh, a TV cameraman, recently died in a helicopter crash. Bill is thankful for Linda’s strength throughout their marriage and especially following this tragedy.. They have four grandchildren.
Spring Tour
Bus Tour to Montreal for boat ride on the Lachine Canal followed by lunch and tour of the Atwater Market
Annual Meeting
Topic - “Barack Obama and American Political Traditions: Some Reflections”
Professor Gordon S. Barker, History Department, Bishop’s University
Since obtaining his BA in Economics at McGill in 1975, Dr. Barker has worked for a number of companies and for the Canadian Government. In recent years he has received a BA, an MA and a PhD in History and has taught history at the College of William and Mary, McGill University and at Bishop’s University. He has written a substantial number of research papers and has received numerous academic and teaching awards.
Spring Luncheon
Tickets: $25.00 for members and $35.00 for non-members.
Tickets may be purchased at the entrance table at our April 6th meeting or from Janet Snider: tel: (450) 263-8982
Heather Darch, Historian and Missisquoi Museum Curator
TOPIC - "Dying of Neglect: The Movement to Document and Preserve Historic Eastern Townships Cemeteries"
Heather Darch is from Ontario where she worked at the Wellington County Museum, the Guelph Museums and for the Heritage and Culture Department for the City of North York. She has both a B.A and M.A. in history and a B.Sc. in anthropology. She married Mike Gasser and moved to Pike River to live on her husband’s dairy farm. She has been employed at the Missisquoi Museum for nearly 17 years as the Curator of Collections and, although she is not a true Townshipper, she believes that giving birth to two Townshipper boys qualifies her as an honourary one! Heather is serving currently as a director for the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network and for the Quebec Old Cemeteries Association and is a regular contributor to “Le Tour” magazine.
Tim Belford, teacher, columnist, newspaper editor, PR officer, host of CBC morning show.
