Français au verso January 2018 Info Métis Municipal Newsletter and Community Info www.ville.metis-sur-mer.qc.ca www.facebook.com/Metissurmer

Metis will turn 200 in 2018!

To celebrate Metis’ 200th anniversary, every month over the coming year, Heritage Lower St. Lawrence will publish a timeline featuring some of the key dates in the history of Metis and some historical highlights Our goal is to bring the history alive by allowing some of the early settlers and others Metissers to speak directly to you... (see p.6)

th Metis’ 200 Would you like to get involved to help prepare celebrations? Concerts, exhibits, beach bonfire, golf game in period costume, maritime marathon, lighthouse story-telling, Canada Day: these are just some of the ideas on the table to be discussed and organized by the committee and community groups. Metis needs your ideas….and your enthusiasm! Please call us at 418-936-3239 /222

The first planning meeting will be held on Tuesday, January 9 at 7p.m. at the Centre des loisirs -Everyone is welcome!

Table of Contents Heritage LSL & Library 2 Metis 200 6 Our Entrepreneurs 9 Health 3 Community services 8 Active Living 10 Community Activities 4 For Sale/Rent/Found/Wanted 8 Municipal Affairs 11

DEADLINE: 15th of the month if the text has to be translated; 20th of the month if it is provided in English and in French -in Word format. Please contact Marie-Claude Giroux at 418 936-3239 #223 www.heritage.ca | www.facebook.com/heritagelsl or by email at [email protected] Heritage Lower Saint Lawrence & Library

HERITAGE CULTURAL RESOURCE CENTRE 130 rue Principale, (418) 936-3239 or 1-855 936-3239

OFFICE HOURS: Monday to Friday, 9 a.m.-noon & 1-4:30 p.m.* *PLEASE NOTE THAT OUR OFFICES ARE ALWAYS CLOSED TUESDAY MORNINGS

LIBRARY SERVICE HOURS: Monday to Friday : 2 - 4 p.m. / Every Saturday: 9:30 to 12:00

** OUR OFFICES ARE CLOSED FOR THE HOLIDAYS. We’ll be back on January 8th!

**HOLIDAY LIBRARY HOURS ** CLOSED until January 8, except on Saturday, December 30 from 9:30am ‘till noon !

FREE SPECIAL REQUESTS, EREADERS, EBOOKS, WIFI, HEALTH INFO AND MORE!

Our team wishes you Happiness and Health this holiday season and throughout the Coming Year!

TO CURL UP WITH A GOOD BOOK… Charles Todd : the complete Bess Crawford series(A) Dan Brown : Origin (A) Types of works: Tom Hanks : Uncommon Type (A) A: adult Diana Gabaldon : Seven Stones to Stand or Fall (Outlander short stories) (A) LG.PR.: large print Jussi Adler-Olsen : The Scarred Woman (A) A-CB : adult comic book DOC: adult non-fiction The -how can it be Gluten Free- Cookbook Vol. 2 (DOC) YA: young adult Marissa Meyer : Renegades (A) (YA) CB : comic book Claudia Gray : 10,000 Skies Above You & A Millions Worlds With You (A) (YA) JR: junior novel Jarrett J. Krosoczka : The Force Oversleeps -Jedi Academy #5 (CB) J: youth non-fiction Jeff Kinney : Diary of a Wimpy Kid -The Getaway (JR) PB: picture book Steve Brezenoff : The Case of the Cave that Shouldn’t Collapse (JR) BB : board book C. M. Gray : Zombiefied (JR) Steve Metzger : The Way I Act (PB) Nicola Killen : The Little Reindeer (PB)

DIANA GABALDON : OUTLANDER SERIES

If you have the Outlander series in English, and would like to donate it, we’d love to receive it! Thank you for contacting Melanie at 418-936-3239 /222 2 Heritage Lower St. Lawrence & Library

LOOKING FOR RECENT WORKS: ADULT & YOUTH NOVELS, NON-FICTION, COMIC BOOKS & RECENT DVDs. OPENING A NEW SATELLITE RESOURCE CENTER IN RIMOUSKI Heritage LSL will open a new satellite resource Center in Rimouski this coming January, to better serve English-speakers of the region. If you have adult or youth novels, non-fiction works, comic books, children’s picture books or recent DVD’s to give to help us out, thank you for bringing them to our offices or for calling so we can arrange transport! We accept EVERYTHING recent, EXCEPT magazines, encyclopedia and condensed books.

Thanks for telling as many people as you can, so we can offer a great collection in Rimouski as well!

Health

Do you have to travel for health?

If you have to travel for health towards Rimouski or towards Québec, Our Travelling for Health TOOLKIT is now available !

You can get a bilingual paper version at the Heritage Cultural Resource Centre or you can also access the Toolkit online : www.travel4health.ca

Produced in collaboration with the Community Health & Social Services Network (CHSSN).

CHSSN COMMUNITY HEALTH EDUCATION PROGRAM (CHEP)

HEALTH VIDEOCONFERENCE SERIES -in English! Oral Health and Hygiene Presenter: Fabiola Lamothe, Dental Hygienist

For all adults and teens! Parents and seniors welcome!

Wednesday, January 24, 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. *

At the NEW Rimouski Heritage Resource Centre & Library 414 de la Seigneuresse, office 1 (basement near Rouleau/Arthur Buies)

* FREE snacks will be served, please tell us if you plan to come!! Info: 1 855 936-3239 (toll free) or 418 936-3239

A CHSSN initiative funded by Health Canada through the Roadmap for Canada’s Official Languages 2013-2018: Education, Immigration, Communities. 3 Community Activit ies

~ All profits fund the Community Training Room ~

FRIDAY BREAKFASTS *Back on January 5 ! LES BOULES 50 PLUS CLUB

Wednesday activities will be back Every Friday at 1:00 p.m. on January 10th! from 8 to 10 a.m.

You can still renew at the Centre des loisirs your membership card (10 de l’Église)

in January

A tasty breakfast at a great price! Everyone welcome! Hope to see you there!

NEEDED: regular or occasional volunteers. Please call The 50 plus Club thanks all participants Martine Bouchard with your availability 418-936-3373.

in our year-long activities and wishes everyone a Happy New Year. .Thank you to Dépanneur Métis-sur-Mer for its contribution to the breakfasts!

SENIORS' FRIENDSHIP LUNCH Theme: A Celebration of Metis! Don’t forget to wear Scottish patterns

Tuesday, January 16 at noon Town Hall (370 Beach) Cost: $8

Reservations before Thursday, Jan. 11: Please call Gaby (evenings): 418 936-3393

Carpooling is organised, please let us know if you need transport or if you can

offer places - thank you!

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Christmas Sharing 2017

As well as the food items, over $493 was collected on December 12th for l'Unité Domrémy de Mont-Joli (Moisson Mitis), our local food bank.

THANK YOU very much to everyone who gave so generously and to Diane Dubé Guilbault and Kathy Dodson for the food drive coordination.

CHRISTMAS TREE COLLECTION

A Christmas tree collection will be held Wednesday, January 17. Please have your Christmas tree out at the side of the road by 8 a.m. Thank you!

L’ENVOL SCHOOL NEWS

Hello, We hope you all had a good time with your family and friends during Christmas break. We also hope you enjoyed the play at Envol school, performed by grades 1, 2 and 3. Here is a little summary of what will happen this month. This month, we will begin exams for our second term. Two thirds of our year has already passed; it has gone fast! To succeed this semester, we will have to put a lot of effort into our school work. With all the snow covering the schoolyard each year, we will again be able to design a huge slide behind the school. Eventually, we will build snow forts and play in them. This is going to be a great winter!

Justine and Catherine

5 Metis 200 : It started with the first settlers in 1818...

Every month over the coming year, Heritage Lower St. Lawrence will publish a timeline featuring some of the key dates in the history of Metis and some historical highlights to celebrate Metis’ 200th anniversary. Our goal is to bring the history alive by allowing some of the early settlers and others Metissers to speak directly to you . If you have texts, illustrations or photos to submit to the project, please send them to Pamela Andersson at pandersson @heritagelsl.ca

John MacNider’s Metis

The Seigneurie de Mitis or Seigneurie de Peiras was granted by the Governor of New France in 1675, but like many seigneuries in eastern it had never been settled. John Macnider began to develop the Metis seigneurie by bringing emigrants from his native . His sailing ship the Rebecca brought settlers from his native Scotland in 1818. Another voyage brought additional families again in 1823. MacNider is credited with settling the region and founding the communities that would become Grand-Métis, Métis-sur-Mer, Les Boules and Baie-des-Sables.

Portrait of John Macnider , MacNider was not the first to recognize the potential of the region. The shore- attributed to William Berczy line and banks of the Mitis River were used by native peoples for thousands of Courtesy of Martin Farnsworth years. Recent archeological discoveries at Les Jardins de Métis confirm that na- Photo by Brian Merrett tives frequented the mouth of the river more than 6,000 years ago.

This account is written by surveyor Joseph Bouchette who visited Metis in the 1800s in which he reveals much about MacNider and his early efforts at colonization:

“….Mr. McNider has erected mills and stores, and dwelling-houses intended for the reception of travellers. He has built a schooner to ply to Quebec; and one or two square-rigged vessels have been also built. The chief set- tlements are at Little Mitis, on a point formed by the St. Lawrence and a deep bay to the S.E., which receives the waters of the R[iver] Little Mitis – The lands in the vicinity of this bay, although of a rather light soil, are rendered extremely fertile by the genial moisture of the sea air, and the efficacy of the sea weed which abounds on the shores and is used as manure.

This shore abounds in timber of good quality. –The road from Quebec on this shore is perfectly practicable all the way for carts and calashes, and settlements have been made throughout. From Grand Mitis to Little Mitis, 5 or 6 miles, the road on the beach is passable; from Little Mitis to Matane the route is very difficult, no road having been traced…40 families were settled here [by] 1823, consisting of English, Scotch and Canadians, but principally Scotch; the settlement commenced in 1818.

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The first settlers were without capital, and were provided with provisions and accommodations for the first two years by Mr. MʽNider, the proprietor; aer which the produce of the soil fully supported them, and the more industrious produced a surplus for sale. Many of these settlers (the most industrious) refused assistance after the first year. The assistance rendered by Mr. MʽNider was as follows : – Each family of five person had 1 ½ barrel of pork, 6 quintals of flour, 2 quintals of biscuit, 20 bushels of potatoes, 10 lbs of butter, 1 lb of green tea, 6 lbs of sugar, 1 cwt. of dried cod-fish, and 1 carron stove and pipe; also each man had one axe, one hoe and one spade, and one grindstone was allowed to each four families; also 3 pairs of blankets, one counterpane and 2 pair of moccasins to each family. Necessary coarse clothing was provided, and paid for in labour. The expenses of each family, including the clothing, were from 15 l. to 20 l.; and a number of Canadians were will- ing, in 1823, to settle in this seigniory, provided the proprietor would advance 10 l. per annum to each for two years. The first two years the settlers pay no rent, after which a money rent of 12s 6d for each lot of 140 to 200 acres. »

Joseph Bouchette , Les amis des Jardins de Métis collection A Topographical Dictionary of the Province of , 1832.

What’s In a Name? Macnider / MacNider and Metis / Mitis were spellings used interchangeably in the 1800s. It was not until founding of the parishes and municipali- ties of Saint-Octave-de-Métis, Little Metis and Grand-Metis that Metis became the common spelling. The name reverted to its original spelling in 1982 when the government of Québec created the MRC de La Mitis – and changed the name of the river to Mitis. But the towns and parishes did not follow the example – sticking to their original spellings and names. As for Macnider…..it appears in different spellings throughout the same period. The official arbiter in Québec is the Commission de Toponymie. It uses MacNider to describe the borough ( arrondissement ), township ( canton ), road and bridge that are all named in honour of the MacNider family. Heritage Lower St. Lawrence collection To Learn More about the MacNiders….. You can read more about Adam Lymburner MacNider in the Dictionary of Canadian Biography on-line and in the Macnider family in Alice Sharples Baldwin’s classic booklet, Metis, Wee Scotland of the Gaspé (reprinted by Heritage Lower St. Lawrence in 2012). 7 Community Services

Community Calendar You can consult the Métis-sur-Mer Community Calendar by going on the Ville's website, under ''Citizens'' and then clicking on ''Activities'' The idea is to enable each group or individual to pick their dates and hopefully, avoid scheduling conflicts. To add an activity, or to consult the calendar if you don't have Internet, you can contact Marie-Claude Giroux at 418-936-3239 #223.

Childcare Places Available 24, rue du Couvent, Métis-sur-Mer (École L’Envol) Service open: Monday to Friday, 7am - 6pm

There are places available at the childcare center “Centre de la petite enfance les Pinsons” Métis-sur-Mer facility, for children up to 5 years old. These are multi-aged groups. We offer quality, subsidized child care at $ 7.75 per day. For a future baby or any eligible child, it is important to register on the single-window access to childcare services in Quebec at www.laplace0-5.com. For information please call 418-739-5080 extension 101

Habitations Le Beaulieu, Apartment for rent - Public Notice of Selection The Municipal Housing Bureau (OMH) of Métis-sur-Mer would like to notify eligible people residing in Que- bec who might be interested in living in a low-income apartment that there is one apartment available at Habitations Le Beaulieu (15, rue du Couvent, Métis sur Mer). To apply or for further information, please contact Diane Beaulieu, Manager, at 418-772- 6030 # 1100.

For Sale/Rent/Found/Wanted

LOST & FOUND : Glasses in a Pronature case and a Set of 3 keys , with mention “camion diesel”, found at the Seniors’ Friendship Lunch. You can come to pick them up anytime during Heritage’s business hours.

POLYCOM QDX6000 VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM FOR SALE : $200

The Polycom QDX6000 system runs a standard definition video and a crystal-clear sound that provide a natural videoconferencing interaction.

A VERY GOOD DEAL FOR HARDENED USERS WHO WISH TO ACQUIRE A GOOD VIDEOCONFERENCING SYSTEM AT A LOW PRICE.

Screen, system installation and technical assistance not included. For more information, please contact 418-936-3239 #221. 8 Our Entrepreneurs

Notice to all businesses of Métis-sur-Mer: you are invited to promote your products and services in Info Métis - Free!

If you would like to receive a monthly reminder, please contact Marie-Claude Giroux.

SEKHA identifies itself as a catalyst of change that equips organizations and communities to think, reflect and act differently. Using collaborative and creative methods, SEKHA co-designs and facilitates processes that empower communities to leverage their collective intelligence to achieve their goals, to evolve their practices and procedures and to sustainably transform their environment. www.sekha.ca

Pascale Geoffroy 138 rue Principale, 2 ieme étage, Métis-sur-Mer 581-624-9450 / [email protected]

Dépanneur Métis-sur-Mer

Tel. : 418-936-3536

New products and new services

The staff of the Dépanneur Métis-sur-Mer wish to inform you that you can purchase frozen products from St-Gelais Grocery and Butchery in Matane. Products include prepared meals, homemade sausages, ground beef and vacuum-packed meat as well as delicious homemade cretons. In addition to offering you fresh fruits and vegetables, and products from Phare Ouest Fish Shop, you can place orders and pick up your products the next day. For those who need it, delivery service is also available for $1.50 + tax. We remind you that we receive fresh products from Les 3 Soeurs bakery in Mont-Joli on Tues- days and Fridays, as well as from Levesque bakery in Amqui on Tuesday.

Welcome all, and happy holidays!

Bruno Leblanc, prop.

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SCHEDULE OF THE MUNICIPAL SKATING RINK , 8 de l'Église

The opening hours can vary according to the weather. We ask your collaboration

when there is a poster prohibiting access to the skating rink. Thank you!

DURING THE HOLIDAY, THE RINK WILL BE OPEN IN THE AFTERNOON Day Time Activity FROM 1 P.M. TO 4 P.M., IF WEATHER CONDITIONS PERMIT. / THE Sunday 1 - 4 p.m. Skating and SKATING RINK WILL BE OPEN DURING SPRING BREAK AND ON PEDA- Hockey GOGICAL DAYS OF THE COMMISION SCOLAIRE DES PHARES. Monday CLOSED CLOSED

Regulations for the skating rink: Tuesday 6:30-7:30 p.m. Skating 7:30 - 9 p.m. Hockey • The rink is exclusively for the practice of free skating and hockey. Wednesday 6:30 .-9 p.m. Hockey Wearing a helmet is mandatory and wearing protection equip- ment (neck-protector, gloves, elbow pads etc) is recommended Thursday 6:30 -7:30 p.m. Skating during hockey practice. 7:30 - 9 p.m. Hockey • The municipality is not responsible for any accident caused by Friday 6:30-7:30 p.m. Skating the use of the rink. 7:30 - 9 p.m. Hockey • Courteous language and behaviour are requested at all times. Saturday 1 - 2:30 p.m. Skating • Telephone use: in case of emergency only, with the permission 2:30 - 4 p.m. Hockey from the employee in charge. 6:30- 7:30 p.m. Skating Gaétan Gagné, employee in charge 7:30 - 9 p.m. Hockey

COMMUNITY TRAINING ROOM (École l’Envol, 30 rue du Couvent – East entrance)

Try out the treadmills, elliptical trainer, excercise bicycle, multi-station weight machines, rowing machine, exercise balls and elastics, medicine balls and more...

CLOSED for the holidays FROM DEC. 22 to JAN. 4 inclusively.

**NEW SCHEDULE (Reopen on Wednesday evenings ) ** Morning Afternoon Evening Monday : 7:30 - 9:00 2:00 - 3:30 6:30 - 9:00 REGISTRATION and INFORMATION Tuesday : 6:30 - 9:00 Please contact Marcel Blanchet at Wednesday : 7:30 - 9:00 2:00 - 3:30 6:30 - 9:00 418 936-3318 (6:30 to 9 p.m.) or Thursday : 6:30 - 9:00 by e-mail at [email protected] Friday : 7:30 - 9:00 2:00 - 3:30 Saturday: 9:00 -11:00 *Please note that membership fees also cover Membership* sports activities which take place in the Envol gym.

Métis residents : $25/month or $4/day Additional fees (ex. cost for a coach or instructor) Non-residents : $30/month or $5/day may apply for certain activities. 10 Students : 50% of adult rate Active Living

*INDOOR-HOCKEY*Tuesdays from 6:30 to 9 p.m. ZUMBA WITH VANESSA CARON 14 years old + / $3 per person 10 -class session -Starting January 22, 2018 Come and join in! in the Envol school gym (east entrance) Members: $115 / Non-Members: $135 / Students: 50% *BADMINTON* Thursday evenings -Welcome! HAVE FUN AND STAY IN SHAPE!

Municipal Affairs

THE MUNICIPAL OFFICE WILL BE CLOSED FROM DECEMBER 21 UNTIL JANUARY 3.

On behalf of the Council and all employees of the Town of Métis-sur-Mer,

I wish everyone a Happy New Year 2018!

A WORD FROM YOUR MAYOR I would like to take this opportunity to introduce your municipal councillors and the committees that they are actively involved in:

Mr. Raynald Banville : Mr. Luc Hamelin : Councillor and selection committee member of the Advisory Committee on Urban Planning (CCU), Municipal Housing Office (OMH) Community Garden Committee Mrs. Martine Bouchard : Mr. René Lepage : Library Committee, Committee of the Municipal Housing Office (OMH), Local Development Committee (CLD) MacNider Borough Council Municipal Age-Friendly Community & Family Policy Ms. Rita Turriff : Mr. Simon Brochu : Planning Advisory Committee (CCU), Recreation Committee Beautification Committee Municipal Age-Friendly Community & Family Policy

The next meeting of the MacNider Borough Council will take place on January 15, 2018 at 6:30 pm and the Métis-sur-Mer council meeting will immediately follow at 7:30 pm; both to be held at the Métis-sur-Mer Municipal Office.

You can now also reach me by email at the following address: [email protected] Best Regards,

Carolle-Anne Dubé, Mayor

418-936-3255 or 418-936-3420 or 418-750-5504 11 CALENDAR OF THE COUNCIL SESSIONS 2018

MONDAY 7H30 PM, JANUARY 15 MONDAY 7H30 PM, MAY 7 MONDAY 7H30 PM, SEPTEMBER 10 MONDAY 7H30 PM, FEBRUARY 5 MONDAY 7H30 PM, JUNE 4 MONDAY 7H30 PM, OCTOBER 1 MONDAY 7H30 PM, MARCH 12 MONDAY 7H30 PM, JULY 9 MONDAY 7H30 PM, NOVEMBER 5 MONDAY 7H30 PM, APRIL 9 MONDAY 7H30 PM, AUGUST 6 MONDAY 7H30 PM, DECEMBER 3

PUBLIC NOTICE TO RESIDENTS OF METIS –SUR-MER MUNICIPAL BY-LAW NO. 17-118 REGARDING:

Budget forecasts for the 2018 fiscal year and; The imposition of real estate taxes, service taxes and tariffs for the 2018 fiscal year.

PUBLIC NOTICE is hereby given by the undersigned, Stéphane Marcheterre, Director General and secretary treasurer that the municipal council of Métis-sur-Mer adopted, on December 14, 2017, By-Law no. 17-118 regarding budget fore- casts for the 2018 fiscal year and the imposition of real estate taxes, service taxes and tariffs for the 2018 fiscal year. Any interested party may consult the said By-Law at the office of the Municipality. This By-Law comes into effect in accordance with the Law. GIVEN AT MÉTIS-SUR-MER this 15th day of December, 2017 Stéphane Marcheterre, Director General and secretary treasurer

WINTER IS COMING: HERE ARE FEW ARTICLES ABOUT THE MANAGEMENT OF SNOW (REGULATION # 03-08)

ARTICLE 3: SNOW/ICE Conforming with articles 498 of the Highway safety code and 415.22 of the Towns and Cities Act, it is a nui- sance and is therefore prohibited to throw or dispose of snow or ice from a private property on the streets or yards, on public land, in public parks, in municipal waters or watercourses.

ARTICLE 5: IMPOSSIBILITY OF SNOW BLOWING If it is impossible to blow the snow on the private property, or if the owner refuses to have the snow blown on his or her property by the municipality, a fee of $40 (forty dollars) will be charged to said owner, each time snow would have been blown, to pay for the removal and transportation of the snow.

ARTICLE 7: WINTER PARKING It is forbidden to park or stop a vehicle on the public way between 11:00 p.m. and 7:00 a.m., from November 15 to April 15 inclusively, in the territory of the municipality. Offenders will be fined $30 (thirty dollars) plus administrative and postal fees. It is also time to install your driveway entrance marker, please make sure that they are installed on your pro-

perty and not on the public right-of-way.

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