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Friday, February 15, 2008
A new friend
Hello, everybody!

A few days while I was talking with historian Michel Vigneault sport, I was part of a new blog on the history of hockey in Quebec City. Today, by browsing my e-mails, I noticed a message from Marc Durand, a journalist with Radio-Canada.

Marc Durand is an avid history, hockey and the city of Quebec. He is the author of a blog named in honour of the hockey team in Quebec Bulldogs.

Particularly well illustrated, this blog we do know a little-known facet of the National Capital. Having aims to publish a book and produce a documentary on the Quebec team in 2012, Marc Durand delivers his blog as evidence of its commitment.

There is no doubt, a blog to follow with interest!

Image Source: http://quebecbulldogs.wordpress.com/
Series Imperial Tobacco, C55, 1911.

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Saturday, January 12, 2008
Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe
Hello, everybody!

For several years now, I am a member of the Centre d'histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe. With a large archive, the Center is a research essential for anyone interested in history and genealogy. Thus, since 1995, attendance Center allows me to do research on the history maskoutaine.

The newspaper Le Courrier de Saint-Hyacinthe provides an excellent means of dissemination for researchers sponsoring the Centre d'histoire by publishing a column titled History of here.


This week The Courier publishes first in a series of four articles that I wrote about the skating and hockey in Saint-Hyacinthe.

To view these stories of ice, go to the website of the newspaper at the following address:
Www.lecourrier.qc.ca/edition/2008-01-09/604ch4b.html

The Centre d'histoire de Saint-Hyacinthe
Www.archivessh.qc.ca

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Thursday, December 20, 2007
The dictionary Janson: looking for

Hello, everybody!

In recent years, I get a chance to rub Jason Gilles, an archivist, librarian and historian of the sport. In 1995, Gilles published his master's thesis in history under the title of us Emparons sport. This book addresses french Canadians and sport in the nineteenth century. Author of several texts in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, passionate history of sport published in 2005 1895-1968

For a long time, the friend Gilles cherishes the dream up a historical dictionary on the sport in Quebec. In 2007, it brings together a small team to run the project. But the period is extensive and subjects are not lacking. Thus, the drafting committee made up of Gilles Janson, the historian Serge Gaudreau and myself, decided to publish a first book on the great forgotten in our sporting history.

Here in a nutshell the objectives of this publication.

GREAT OUBLIÉS DICTIONARY OF SPORT IN QUEBEC, 1850-1950.

-- Coverage: 1850-1950 (period of activity of biographié)

-- The dictionary will be a beginning to a book published more ambitious future, and that would include not only biographies, but also of great events, historical clubs, sports associations, institutions, and so on.

-- The dictionary will include a historical introduction of a twenty pages on the history of sport in Quebec for the period 1850-1950, and will be accompanied by an index.

-- Biographiés will not necessarily Quebecers, but persons having significant activities in Quebec in the field of sport. It might even be people who have never set foot in Quebec, but who through their writings or otherwise have played a certain role in the history of sport here.

-- The dictionary will comprise one hundred biographies, but hockey players will be excluded unless they have participated in other sports.

-- The biographies cover both athletes, administrators, journalists, and so on.

-- As in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography, biographies begin with a paragraph where you will find the dates and places of birth and death and those of the main occupations of biographié. Additionally, the names and occupations of the parents (we understand that for the time, it will almost always the father's occupation). The biographies will be followed by major references used in their preparation.

-- The biographies will be illustrated wherever possible.