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Bridge over the Vivery stream.Bridge over the Vivery stream.

Hudson's Earliest Residents

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Maben Walter Poirier


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Submitted by poirmw on Sat, 2007-05-19 10:24.

May 14, 2007 Meeting: “Unfree” – Slaves and Captives in Canada

7.30pm St. James Anglican Church, 642 Main Road, Hudson

The Hudson Historical Society presents “Unfree” – Slaves and Captives in Canada on Monday, May 14, at 7:30 p.m. at St. James Church Hall, 642 Main Road, Hudson. This will be the last monthly meeting until September. This year the world marks the 200th anniversary of the passing of the “Abolition of the Slave Trade Bill” by the British Parliament. From that time on the slave trade was abolished throughout the Empire. The British navy was authorized to fine ships caught trafficking humans £100 per slave found on board.


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Rencontres sur la rivière des Outaouais

Les relations entre Amérindiens et Européens, aux XVIIe et XIXe siècles

par MARC RIOPEL

La rivière des Outaouais est au coeur de l’histoire que nous allons vous raconter au fil de ce texte. Formée à la suite du retrait du glacier sur le territoire du nord-est de l’Amérique du Nord, il y a environ 12 000 ans, la rivière des Outaouais s’impose rapidement comme voie de communication centrale qui permet l’accès à l’ensemble du Canada. Ainsi, en suivant son cours, le canotier peut atteindre l’intérieur du territoire du Québec par le biais de ses tributaires, se rendre vers la baie d’Hudson ou encore poursuivre sa route vers les Grands Lacs et l’Ouest du Canada. Les Amérindiens ont rapidement découvert son potentiel et en ont fait un réseau de communication et d’échanges réunissant les tribus amérindiennes de l’ensemble du continent. Cela s’est mis en place, il y a environ 5 000 ans. C’est d’ailleurs ce réseau de communication qui permet la rencontre des Européens et des Amérindiens, au début du XVIIe siècle, objet central de cette histoire.

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13 Nov 2006 Meeting - Military Historian Sheds Light on Canadian Soldiers in Siberia

Monday November 13, 7.30pm at St. James Anglican Church, 642 Main Road, Hudson

The Siberian Expeditionary Force: A (Nearly) Forgotten Episode of WWI Long-time residents of Hudson remember Frank Wilson. Born in 1890, the youngest of James and Carolyn Wilson of Cote St. Charles' nine children, Frank was one of the large contingent of local men who answered the call to defend King and Empire in the Great War. He survived, returned to the Cote, but soon left for Ottawa where he learned the trade of carpentry. Two decades of work in Detroit followed.


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John Graham

John Graham

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1915 Wedding of Isaac Simpson Jr to Tessie Carwardine

1915 Wedding of Isaac Simpson Jr to Tessie Carwardine

 1915 Wedding of Isaac Simpson Jr to his second wife Tessie Carwardine, a widow from England, who bore his thirteenth child, Muriel Simpson Commerford, when he was 69.


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60th Anniversary of James and Caroline Simpson Wilson

60th Anniversary of James and Caroline Simpson Wilson

 60th wedding anniversary of James and Caroline Simpson Wilson, taken around 1930 in Cote St Charles. Photographer was Lem Simpson.


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Le Raconteur

As some of you know, over the years, I have been writing a series of vignettes on a variety of subjects. Pressed by Kevin to publish one or two of them as an inaugural venture on the new website of the Hudson Historical Society, I offer you a glimpse into a New Year's evening at my uncle Alphée's home in Alstonvale.

LE RACONTEUR
(The Story-teller)

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Maben W. Poirier


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Submitted by poirmw on Tue, 2006-05-09 06:34.

Next Meeting: Pioneer Families of Hudson | Les Pionniers de Hudson

St. James Anglican Church (Eglise Saint-James), 642 Main Road, Hudson

The first people to be granted land in what we now call Hudson were Louis Mallet, Jean-Baptiste Sequin, Jean-Baptiste Sabourin, Antoine Quesnel, Augustin Leduc and Pierre Villeneuve. These Hudson pioneers cleared land, built homes, explored, traded, married and had numerous children. Their descendants are still here in significant numbers today. Join us as Pat McCaffrey presents her fascinating explorations into the early days of Hudson. Date/Time: Monday, May 8, 2006 at 7.30pm Place: St. James Anglican Church, 642 Main Road, Hudson Everyone welcome!


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