Leader: Tim Fain

Tim Fain has been conducting popular Creative Writing Workshops in Beaconsfield, Côte Saint-Luc, Saint Laurent, Pointe-Claire and Hudson Libraries since 1995.

 

From family histories to personal reflections, this workshop will take you through the steps needed to unleash your writing talent and help you organize your information. Workshops are more an interactive experience than a formal course.

 

FREE

Dates: The first Tuesday of each month

 

Stop the deterioration of your families historic documents, letters, photographs, albums, books, memorabilia and scrapbooks through the practice of archival preservation. Discuss simple and practical techniques that can be applied in a home setting. Learn how to avoid damage caused by pollutants, poor climate, light, pests, and mould through proper boxing, housing and storage. Demonstrations in cleaning books and paper, removing clips and staples, separating photographs from ‘sticky’ album pages. 

 

 

 

 

Leader: Tim Fain

Tim Fain has been conducting popular Creative Writing Workshops in Beaconsfield, Côte Saint-Luc, Saint Laurent, Pointe-Claire and Hudson Libraries since 1995.

 

From family histories to personal reflections, this workshop will take you through the steps needed to unleash your writing talent and help you organize your information. Workshops are more an interactive experience than a formal course.

 

FREE

Dates: The first Tuesday of each month

 

Rev. John Chisholm, Immigration Chaplain at the Port of Montreal, was inspired to create the Montreal-based British Immigration and Colonization Association. Their primary vision, to encourage British settlement across the Dominion, resulted in over 5,500 British boys being brought over to work on farms. BICA’s records touch on innumerable tales of drama and adventure.

 

 Lecturers: Gary Schroder & others

The seminar will explore how to find and use the modern English and Welsh genealogical resources that are available online and in our library. Emphasis will also be on the newest information and databases that have been made available during the past year.

 

Leader: Tim Fain

Tim Fain has been conducting popular Creative Writing Workshops in Beaconsfield, Côte Saint-Luc, Saint Laurent, Pointe-Claire and Hudson Libraries since 1995.

 

From family histories to personal reflections, this workshop will take you through the steps needed to unleash your writing talent and help you organize your information. Workshops are more an interactive experience than a formal course.

 

FREE

Dates: The first Tuesday of each month

 

Speaker: Ken Lyons

The talk will cover the invention of the phone, the early versions and how they were an early form of Facebook, their technology, the areas served by the Pointe-Claire central office, extracts of the first telephone directories and a live demonstration of 1940s switching equipment. Many photos and images will be projected

 

The seminar will explore how to use the databases and other information online relating to Quebec Genealogy as well as focusing on the materials that are available in the Q.F.H.S. Library. How do I use all the genealogical resources that are part of the Drouin Genealogical Institute and that are on Ancestry ? Come to this seminar and find out.