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New photo book chronicles histories of Dorion and Vaudreuil

By John Jantak PHOTO BY CHRISTIAN GONZALEZ (Left to right): Odette Lalonde, president of the organizing committee for the 25th...

Local hauntings – The Pioneer

By Jules-Pierre Malartre PHOTO COURTESY DIANE MAROIS Dating back to the year 1900, the storied Pioneer Bar gave some staffers bad vibes...

176-year-old glassworks artifacts unearthed in Hudson

By Nick Zacharias PHOTO BY NICK ZACHARIAS An archeological excavation lasting over a month was conducted on the site of the former Canada...

Local Hauntings – Devil’s Field of Mont-Rigaud

By Jules-Pierre Malartre PHOTO COURTESY VANESSA RACINE/audeladupaysage.com/ Mont-Rigaud’s legendary potato field, historically known as...

The Chat is back

By Carmen Marie Fabio THE JOURNAL FILE PHOTO/CARMEN MARIE FABIO The storied Château du Lac bar, which closed shortly after the outbreak...

Maison Robillard restoration in Ste. Anne’s to be completed by early fall

By John Jantak THE JOURNAL FILE PHOTO/JOHN JANTAK Following a fire in 2012, the historic Maison Robillard in Sainte-Anne-de-Bellevue fell...

Call for creativity for the Canal

By Nick Zacharias PHOTO BY PIERRE LAHOUD A competition launched by the Vaudreuil-Soulanges MRC and the Quebec Ministry of Culture and...

Important historical artifacts found at Sandy Beach

By Nick Zacharias PHOTO COURTESY ADRIAN BURKE Archeologist and Hudson resident Adrian Burke said this iron axe, found by detectorist...