Contract 400119680 ESTABLISHED • MAY 1975 VOLUME 44 / NO 26 / JULY 4, 2018 $1.50 (Tax included) Proud to be Gaspesian! Shannon Marsh St. Pat’s Elementary NEW CARLISLE: - For the past 12 years Gaspesians have expressed and celebrated their pride in our region on the first Thursday of June for Proud to be Gaspesian Day, or as the francophones refer to it as, Journée en Blue. Introduced in 2007 by Commission jeunesse Gaspésie-Iles-de-la-Madeleine, each year on this day Gaspesians show their support by wearing blue! This is a day to promote being Gaspesian and show the world what the Gaspé Coast has to offer. On June 7, students from New Carlisle High School, Shigawake Port Daniel School, New Richmond High School and St. Patrick’s School celebrated and supported this event. The students and teachers submitted creative pictures to CASA expressing their Gaspe- sian pride! In return all students were presented with fruit trays and cold treats! NCHS grade 1-2 St. Pat’s Secondary GASPESIAN NCHS grade 5-6 Loud and Proud Gaspesie Rocks! StPat’s#Gaspesian#Blue#Home Kindergarten NCHS Pre-K - NCHS NRHS grade 6 Canada Day quiz answers Police report Last week’s quiz about the Birthplace of Canada was a tough one. If you figured out all the answers correctly, you are a brilliant historian specializing in the Gaspé Peninsula! However, if you knew more than half, you On June 26 shortly before midnight, a house fire on des Merles are very knowledgeable. Street in Maria claimed the life of Yves Simoneau, 45, a resi- dent of Maria. A neighbour saw smoke coming out of the THE ANSWERS: house and called the emergency services. Following a quick in- 1. Mi’gmaq 11. New Richmond, New Carlisle tervention by the firefighters, the fire was controlled and they 2. Vikings and Douglastown were able to enter the house. 3. Jacques Cartier 12. Carleton 4. 1750 13. 1816 – 1817 “A man was found in the house. He was unconscious and was 5. Major General James Wolfe 14. Scotland and Ireland rushed to the hospital where he was pronounced dead,” says 6. Carleton, Bonaventure and 15. 1911 Sgt. Claude Doiron, spokesperson for the Sûreté du Québec. Paspébiac 16. 1920s “With the elements we have, foul play is ruled out for now. The 7. Battle of Restigouche 17. Wilbert Coffin Maria firefighters are still investigating the probable cause of 8. 1763 18. Murdochville the fire. There will eventually be a coroner’s report regarding 9. Establishing a giant cod fishing 19. Families were forced to leave their that case,” adds Sgt. Doiron. monopoly in Paspébiac, and Robin, homes and resettle elsewhere. ****** Jones and Whitman stores. 20. One of the largest bird sanctuar- On June 26 at approximately 10 a.m. in Grand River, a 57-year- 10. British Americans who remained ies in the world. old employee of Actibec, was critically injured when pinned loyal to the British monarchy and under the lift he was operating after it had tipped. 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LEVESQUE BLVD NEW CARLISLE, QC, GOC 1Z0 Draw will take place on July 31, 2018! Page 2, July 4, 2018 - Spec Expropriation of René Lévesque house progressing slowly Gilles Gagné Communications, despite metres from the house where vide the means of repairing heritage buildings. It is sure being endowed with the right René Lévesque, Quebec’s for- and maintaining the house to that the ministry will look for NEW CARLISLE – The ex- to expropriate, has outsourced mer premier, was raised. Es- the Fondation de la maison another owner of the René propriation process for the the task and that the Depart- pace René-Lévesque is an René-Lévesque,” adds Mr. Lévesque house once the ex- René Lévesque house is pro- ment of Transport will con- interpretation site with exte- Boivin. When questioned by propriation process is com- gressing slowly. The Quebec duct the expropriation rior displays detailing Spec his foundation col- pleted. Department of Culture and process. Transport Quebec has Levesque’s career. leagues including Marc- The house will need re- Communications has trans- the expertise in that field. Originally, the interpreta- André Bédard agree with that pairs worth hundreds of thou- ferred the expropriation man- This is the first time the tion part of the project was to eventual option, and so does sands of dollars once the date of the New Carlisle Department of Culture and be located at the Mount Sorel Louis E. Bernard, the presi- expropriation is concluded. house to the Ministry of Communications has used its house but the Fondation de la dent of the foundation. That process can be stopped at maison René-Lévesque, which That option would make any point if the department of spearheaded the project, opted more sense considering that Culture and Denis Cloutier for the Highway 132 property, the Department of Culture and negotiate and reach an agree- formerly owned by the Jiona Communications doesn’t own ment. family. The impossibility to reach an agreement with Denis Cloutier convinced the foun- René Lévesque’s dation administrators to look for another location. daughter reminisces A vast group of René Lévesque friends and former Gilles Gagné political colleagues attended NEW CARLISLE: – Many people paid a heartfelt tribute to the June 26 official opening: René Lévesque during the official opening ceremony of the Photo: G. Gagné former ministers Marc-André interpretation site bearing his name. A couple of speeches Bédard and Clément Richard; The René Lévesque house is in poor condition. stood out, and the one presented by Suzanne Lévesque, the former René Lévesque assis- daughter of Quebec’s former premier, certainly touched a lot expropriation power since the Transport. tant Louis Bernard; former of people, because it meant a rare testimony of what their pri- The decision to initiate the adoption of the cultural her- minister and premier Pauline vate life looked like. expropriation process was itage law in 2012 . Marois; René’s daughter, “He opened so many new horizons for us through dis- made nine months ago by then The slow progress of the Suzanne Lévesque; former cussions (…). He initiated our interest in sports, like swim- Culture and Communications file is receiving attention con- chief of staff Jean-Roch ming, diving and tennis. I remember losing my first and last Minister Luc Fortin. On Sep- sidering that Espace René- Boivin; former Parti Québé- tember 20, he contacted the Lévesque officially opened its cois leader Pierre-Karl tennis match against him. I was ten,” said Ms. Lévesque with current owner of the Mount doors on June 26, eighteen Péladeau; and current opposi- a grin. Sorrel house, Denis Cloutier, days after it was accessible to tion leader Jean-François She missed her father when she was a child, because he in writing to tell him that he the public. Premier Philippe Lisée. was a top minister in the Liberal Party government of Jean was starting the expropriation Couillard was invited to that The integration of the Lesage between 1960 and 1966, as well as premier of a Parti process. It was based on the official opening but declined René Lévesque house to Es- Québécois regime from 1976 to 1985. She therefore appreci- fact that there was no negoti- due to other commitments. pace René-Lévesque “is not in ated all the moments spent with him. ating with Mr. Cloutier. Three other ministers: our plans for now. If the foun- “Upon his retirement from politics, I would really have Minister Fortin had written Pierre Moreau, the minister dation ever has the financial liked to convince him to resume sports. I wanted my revenge a first letter to Denis Cloutier responsible for the Gaspé means to do it, it would be on the tennis court,” added the lady, who pointed out that her on August 4, asking him to Peninsula; Marie Montpetit, nice to include the house but trip to the Gaspé Peninsula was an occasion to practice out- contact the Department of culture and communications we are not there,” points out door sports.