Société historique Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield

1995-96

Sept. 95 Mr. Este of the Bout D'Ile Society on "The Post Office".
Oct. 95 Mrs. Noreen Lowe of the Argenteuil Museum on "Victorian Diaries".
Nov. 95 Mr. Jean-Guy Brossard History of "Old Montreal".
Jan. 30, 96 Ms. Beth Kirkwood - Royal Bank of Canada "Quick to the future"
Feb 27, 96 Mr. David Freeman - "History of the Queen Elizabeth Hospital".
Mar 26, 96 Mrs. Evelyn Peyton-Taylor - "19^th Century Costumes. Male & Female".
Apr 30, 96 Mr. Robert Benoit – “Tokens and other Dairy Memorabilia”, (Bout de L’Ile hosted)
May 28, 96 Mr. David Rose - "Architecture of Montreal Ross & McDonald Architects"

1994-95

1993-94

September 28, 1993 Mr. P. Campbell. (Sherlock Holmes)
October 26, 1993 Mr. W. Gutzman. (Postcards of the Lakeshore area) (Bout de L’Ile joint)
November 30, 1993 Dr. A. Kotaite. (History and Development of the I.C.A.O.)
Jan 19, 1994 Dr Ashton Kerr “Diving Free in Sky and Sea”
February 22, 1994 Mr. Lyle Cruickshank. (N.F.B.films)
March 30, 1994 Mr. N. Cameron. (A Great Irishman)
April 27, 1994 Claire Gagné and France Bourgeois of Coup d'Oeil, the City of Maisonneuve and the Chateau Dufresne. Joint Session with Bout de L'Ile.
May 25, 1994 AGM Mr. Terence Kerwin, History of Grosse Isle and Irish immigration to Canada.

1992-93

September 29, 992 Prof. H. Senior "Quebec in 1837" Joint Session with Bout de L'Ile.
October 27, 1992 Victoria Stewart "The Founding of Ville Marie"
November 24, 1992 Mrs M. O’Keefe "A History of Tobacco"
Feb 23, 1993 Miss J. Rosen “Montreal’s Jewish Community”

1991-92

1990-91

1989-90

1988-89

Sept. 27/88 Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie, Ph.D. – “The Allan Line & Me”
Oct. 25 Roger Bider - Ecomuseum
Nov. 29 Robert Baird - History of Beaconsfield
Jan. 31/89 Grace Cunningham - The Golden Square Mile
Feb 28 Linda Joyce - Raptor Center
Mar. 28 Lyle Cruickshank - History of NFB Films
Apr. 25 Dr. Kenneth Mackenzie, Ph.D. - Railways vs. Waterways: The struggle for supremacy between railways and canals 1880-1903
May 30 Conrad Graham - "McCord Museum and the value of museums to the public"

1987-88

Sept.29/87 - Ann McKinnel-Walker, the Harpell Press of Ste. Anne de Bellevue from an historical perspective.
Oct. 27 - Ben Shara, Treasurer of the College of Pharmacy 'The History of Pharmacy" will be presented.
Nov. 24 - Father Tom McEntee of St. Edmund of Canterbury Roman Catholic Church; Rev. and Canon Frank Toop of St. Mary's Anglican Church; Rev., The movement of English Protestant and Catholic churches out to the West Island.
January 26/88- Graeme Decarie "Leisure"
February - Doris Montour of Kahnawake

1986-87

September 30/86 Wayne McKell of the Chateauguay Valley Historical Society on the history of that region
October 28 Valerie Benham, Mr. Les Sawyer, Bank note designer and miniaturist.
November 25 Paul-Emil Cadorette of Parks Canada on the history of the Lachine area
Jan 27/87 Roy Wilson slides on the old houses of Quebec
Feb 24 Henry Harwood, St. Michel de Vaudreuil church
Apr 28 Dr. F. Schlossher on the history of fashion
June 8 AGM Guy Vadeboncoeur, curator of the David Stewart Museum on St. Helen's Island and Le Vieux Fort

1985-86

1984-85

SEPT. 25/84 “Fur Trading" by Armour Landry- historian
OCT. 30 Old Montreal by France Bourgeois of Coup d'Oeil sur l’Art Lecture and slide projection at Gibby’s restaurant.
Nov. 27 History of the Mohawk Indians of Caughnawaga and the Chateauguay area and brief history of Lachine by Gerry Rogers
Jan. 29/85 History of Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield by Gisele Hall with slide projection of old and local pictures
Apr. 30 History of Ste Anne by Josee Derepentigny slides and pictures will be shown

1983-84

Sep 27 France Boungeois - Faison revivre nos ancestors
Oct 25 Ann Lachance - The history of Dorval
Jan 31 Robert Baird - Cartography pertaining to the West Island
Feb 23 Prof. R. Diubaldo - Inuits and history of its people.
Mar 29 Dr. Graham. Decarie - The English population in Montreal
Apr 19 Julia Gersovitch of Heritage Montreal - Victorian Architecture Slide show
May 29 (AGM) Prof. Hereward Senior - The United Empire Loyalists in Quebec

1982 - 1983

Sept.28, 1982 Gisele Hall Visual presentation of our local history (old pictures and maps)
Oct.26, 1982 Prof. John Bland “The French Canadian architecture”
Nov.30, 1982 Prominent historian: Sister Estelle Mitchell, Grey Nuns
Mar. 29, 1983 Rene Chartrand -Curator and historian from the Military Museum in Ottawa
Apr. 26, 1983 Expose on the family genealogy by local Quebec Family History Society

1978-79
- Sept. 11, 1978 “A Trip Through History”, Mr. David Stewart
- November 28, 1978 Historic House Tour, Trestler House in Vaudreuil, P Roy Wilson as guide and speaker.
February 13th, 1979 Slides and movies of Beaurepaire 300

Sept. 29, 1977 (First AGM) A slide and talk presentation by Mr. Earle Moore entitled "The Restoration of a 19th Century Quebec Village". This gave an insight as to how interesting our past could be.
Jan. 12th, 1978 Mr. Claude Hoskin, former owner of The Grove, circa 1810, gave a talk and slide show about the Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield area, with emphasis on the history of The Grove Hotel. Besides shedding a lot of light on our early days, there were many humorous anecdotes about happenings during Mr. Hoskin's quarter century ownership of The Grove.
April 26th, 1978 Mr. Chester E. Beachell of the National Film Board spoke about his underwater exploits and also showed a film about the so-called "Killer Whales" which, we learned, are actually most gentle creatures. Mr. Beachell also mentioned there were wrecks of ships in local waters and he hoped that some day more relics of our past would be recovered. Apparently, most of the wrecks are located in swift water, which is understandable and difficult to reach.
June 28, 1978 (AGM) Sally Weary, a McGill History graduate, gave a brief outline of her current work in preperation for Beaurepaire 300.

1990-96 Lectures