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! 4 Community Activities 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 Quebec it had never been settled. John Macnider began to develop the Metis seigneurie by bringing emigrants from his native Scotland. 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.