Premier événement du genre au Québec, le Sommet est un grand rassemblement des forces vives du patrimoine bâti. Il se veut une occasion unique de convergence entre tous les intervenants, groupes, associations, chercheurs, institutions et citoyens intéressés par le patrimoine local, régional ou national.

L’événement a pour objectifs de :

• Sensibiliser les citoyens à l’importance du patrimoine dans leur quotidien, dans leur environnement, et susciter leur engagement;
• Positionner les organismes nationaux auprès des citoyens, des élus et des promoteurs immobiliers en tant qu’acteurs de première ligne, compétents et accessibles;
• Favoriser les échanges et la collaboration entre les différents acteurs;
• Dégager les enjeux majeurs qui seront identifiés à travers les différents types de patrimoines;
• Définir des priorités d’action à l’échelle nationale.

Il est initié par la Table de concertation qui réuni une dizaine d’organismes de portée nationale impliqués à leur façon dans la sauvegarde et la mise en valeur du patrimoine bâti au Québec.

Source : https://sommetpatrimoinebati.ca/

The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s 2017 summer launch took place on 21 June 2017 and about 40 guests attended this 5 à 7. The Executive Director gave a speech to welcome CHQ’s members and partners and to inaugurate two small exhibitions for the 150th anniversary of Confederation and 375th anniversary of Montreal and also the new library and patrimonial gardens.

The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s 2017 summer launch took place on 21 June 2017 and about 40 guests attended this 5 à 7. The Executive Director gave a speech to welcome CHQ’s members and partners and to inaugurate two small exhibitions for the 150th anniversary of Confederation and 375th anniversary of Montreal and also the new library and patrimonial gardens.

Those attending were very interested by the exhibitions, particularly the archives collection of Collard, Collins and Dawson and the library with its books from the XVII to the XXI century. A list of these documents and archives is now available online on CHQ’s website on the “Library & Archives” page. Users will also find the guidelines for consultation.

Since August, CHQ is organizing open houses at the Hurtubise House and this event will continue this fall. For information: coord@hcq-chq.org

Regards,
Canadian Heritage of Quebec

Jeudi, le 17 mai 2017, sous le toit de la maison Hurtubise a eu lieu la conférence de Danièle Archambault, linguiste et bédéiste, Les Escaliers de Montréal; Raconter l’histoire (orale) par la bande dessiné. Cette conférence spéciale était organisée pour souligner le 375e anniversaire de Montréal. Par le biais de sa série de BDs Histoires d’escaliers, Madame Archambault a plongé l’auditoire dans les années 1950 en soulignant l’importance des supports visuels pour rappeler l’histoire des gens ou faire émerger leurs souvenirs d’où vient la nécessité de préserver le patrimoine architectural. De plus, elle a accentué le fait qu’il ne faut pas regarder le passé avec les yeux du présent. Pour cela, il faut bien documenter et restituer la vie des gens de cette époque.

Les participants de cette soirée ont été enchantés par les anecdotes que Madame Archambault racontait dans ses BDs et ont posé beaucoup de questions sur le patrimoine culturel et linguistique qui sont fort bien représentés dans les dessins et les textes de l’auteure.
Madame Archambault a également présenté son tout nouveau livre: Une année de célébrations! qui tombe à point nommé avec les diverses célébrations du 375e de Montréal. Également, du 26 au 28 mai, elle participera au Festival de la BD de Montréal.

In the context of the 375th anniversary of Montreal, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec organizes a special conference for its donors, partners and the public. The theme of this bilingual conference is Documenting Cultural Heritage through Visual Storytelling and will be presented by Ms. Danièle Archambault, Ph.D., linguist and cartoonist. In her comic book series Stairway Stories, she portrays with humor the daily life of two young children growing up in Montreal in the late 1950s, right before the onset of Québec Quiet Revolution.

Montreal’s Stairways are known as one of the significant elements of Montreal architectural heritage. For Ms. Archambault, visual storytelling provides an important window into a society’s cultural and linguistic heritage through their form, allowing for the combination of images of everyday life with colloquial language. Through her series of humoristic short stories, the author and researcher introduces the reader to Montreal’s architectural cultural heritage and the oral history of Quebec society at that time.

Biography:
Ms. Danièle Archambault, Ph.D., is a linguist and a cartoonist, who grew up in Montreal, Quebec where she was a tenured professor in the linguistics department at the University of Montreal until 1998. She moved to Palo Alto, California where she worked as a consultant in speech technology. In 2009, her interest in comics and bandes dessinées led her to take a class on writing graphic novels at Stanford University. She discovered a new and engaging way to share her reflections on language, culture and life.

This conference will take place in the middle of May 2017 at the Hurtubise House, 563 Côte St-Antoine Road in Westmount (corner Victoria).

This conference will last about one hour. For information: coord@hcq-chq.org

Once again this year, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec will organize a series of conferences for its donors and partners. In order to celebrate the 375th anniversary of Montreal, the theme of the conferences will be on the “Hurtubise Family and Farmhouse”.

You are cordially invited to the fourth conference which will take place on Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 7:00 p.m. at the Hurtubise House, 563 Côte St-Antoine Road in Westmount (corner Victoria). The subject of this conference will be “Préserver le patrimoine végétal par la reproduction”.

This conference will be bilingual and divided in two sections of 30 minutes each as follows:

1. Patrice Fortier: Background in Visual Arts and gardener and seed sowerbytrade: Patrice will share his experience in the dynamic preservation of plant heritage and its importance for future generations. This conference will bring new prospects for the vegetable garden at the Hurtubise House.
   
   Biography: After getting involved in community gardening and urban landscaping projects, inspired by Seeds of Diversity Canada, he founded in 2001 «La société des plantes» in Kamouraska: It is a small certified organic farm where he gives workshops and produces seeds of heirloom vegetables and other mostly uncommon crops that are well suited for the northern gardens.
   
   
   
2. Mardjane Amin: 2017 Heritage Gardens at the Hurtubise House. Mardjane will present the kind of vegetables that will be planted and will grow in the Hurtubise House’s gardens during the summer of 2017.
   
   Biography: Mardjane Amin is an Heritage Consultant, Master in Conservation of Built Heritage from University of Montreal. In 2016, she developed the gardens project and created them with the help of 30 students from Université de Montréal and McGill University.
   

As seats are limited, please reserve by email by no later than March 26, 2017. This conference is free for donors and $5 for non-members.

It has been a good start for the summer season of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec and now we want to open the Hurtubise House to the public for our Cup of Tea on Wednesdays event.

Through this activity, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec wants to invite the citizens of Westmount to come and mark six decades of their implication in the conservation of heritage sites in Quebec. The Cup of Tea on Wednesdays’ event will take place at the Hurtubise House, the head-office of our organization, located at 563 Côte-Saint-Antoine Road (corner Victoria) in Westmount. Guests will have an opportunity to discover the Hurtubise House, visit the exhibition which is dedicated to the Hurtubise family and also the heirloom vegetables garden. They will be greeted at the entrance with the necessary information and will be free afterwards to explore this historic property, classified heritage site by the government of Quebec in 2004.

This open house will allow the public to discover the Hurtubise House, the oldest house in Westmount, in a newperspective. Guests can enjoy tea and cookies while visiting the exhibition, the yesteryear décor of the house and its flower gardens. The open house will take place on three Wednesdays in summer: 20thof July, 3rdof August and 17thof August. Visiting hours will be from 1:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. and entrance fees will be at $5 per person, including drinks and a snack.

As the number of places is limited, reservation is recommended for this educational, unique and immersive event. Interested visitors can contact us by telephone during work hours at 438-381-4567.

The Canadian Heritage of Quebec is proud to mark the 375th anniversary of Montreal and the 150th anniversary of Canadian Confederation by inviting amateurs of history and heritage for a tour of one of its magnificent properties: the Hurtubise House, the oldest building in the neighbourhood of Westmount. Built in 1739 and located at 563 chemin de la Côte-Saint-Antoine, this old farmhouse was the home of a French American large family, namely the Hurtubise, for many generations.

Come and join us for a cup of tea and a partially guided tour where you will discover the classical architecture and original interior of the Hurtubise House, as well as the new exhibitions on Montreal and the Canadian Confederation. Guests will also discover the new library and heirloom vegetables gardens.

The Open House at the Hurtubise House will take place on Wednesday July 9th and the following Tuesdays: 15, 22 and 29 August. The visit will begin at 1:30 p.m. (sharp) to end at 3:30 p.m. Access to the partially guided tour of the house and the gardens is comprised in the entrance fees of $10 and includes tea, drinks and a snack. As the number of seats is limited (15 guests per visit), please make your reservation now by email at coord@hcq-chq.org.

Revenues collected from these activities will be used mainly to continue the Heritage’s mission which is the conservation of cultural and natural heritage in Quebec.

This year, the Hurtubise House celebrates the 60th anniversary of its acquisition and conservation by The Canadian Heritage of Quebec. In order to mark this anniversary, there was an indoor exhibition on the six generations of the Hurtubise family who used to live in this ancestral house.

The opening of this exhibition and the launching of the summer season took place on Thursday, June 16th from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m at the Hurtubise House.

Through this exhibition, The Canadian Heritage of Quebec wanted to enhance one of the oldest houses in Westmountand reminisce on the agricultural transition to the urbanization of this municipality.

Furthermore, the summer season launch of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s properties was held during this cocktail and a presentation was given on the rentals of some of the heritage properties. Please click the following link on our website Summer-2016 to get more information on these houses.

During the summer season, several activities are also open to the public with the collaboration of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec’s partners, namely the Fraser Manor, the Domaine Pointe de-Saint-Vallier, the Greenwood Centre for Living History, as well as Les Éboulements Mill.

We would like to thank our guests and partners, as well as the Brigade Napoleon of North America, for attending this event.

Please do not hesitate to communicate with us for further information.

Have a great summer!

The staff and volunteers of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec

The inauguration of the commemorative vegetable and flower gardens of the Hurtubise House took place on May 17th, 2016. The purpose of this project is to mark the 60th anniversary of the acquisition and conservation of the Hurtubise House by The Canadian Heritage of Quebec. The idea of a commemorative garden comes from Mardjane Amin, heritage consultant, after she discovered the agricultural history of the site of the Hurtubise House. From there started the “agricultural” project in order to revitalize the landscape of the Hurtubise House. Heirloom and heritage seeds were sowed so that the vegetable and flower gardens reflect the agricultural past of the Hurtubise farm.

The realization of the “agricultural” project was made possible thanks to the generous collaboration of the Jardins de l’écoumène who donated heritage seeds, as well as the Cour à bois Villeneuve who offered rebates on wood and hardware. Not to mention the involvement of several students from McGill University and Université de Montréal and some of these students now form part of the young volunteers committee of The Canadian Heritage of Quebec.

As you will note on the pictures, the landscaping of the gardens harmonizes with the incomparable heritage value of the Hurtubise House. Please come and visit the magnificent gardens of the Hurtubise House and see the remarkable transformation. For a visit of the house, please make an appointment by sending an email to coord@hcq-chq.org. If you want to become a volunteer for the maintenance of the gardens or for any comments, kindly use the same email address.

Here is an article from The Suburban, in the edition of may 25, 2016, on the Hurtubise House and its commemorative gardens. Read the article