Change log, Baie-D'Urfe history

Recent changes/change log, Baie-D'Urfe history

This is a log of changes and additions. Only bigger updates are listed here. Small updates or updates due to typos and spelling errors are not listed here.

Maybe you have been on this site a while ago and now you are coming back to see what's new. You can use the below list to catch up with the recent additions and updates.

2024-March-03, add: Train derailment near Beaurepair, photo provided by Donna Brown
2024-Feb-23, add: news paper snippets, Montreal Star articles about the Dowkers
2024-Feb-11 to 2024-Feb-19, add: pictures of 43 Oxford, pictures by Gillian Bennett
2023-Nov-11, add: Land use map from 1941
2023-Oct-29, add: Dowker houses, added L. R. Thomson photo
2023-Oct-29, add: Le Sabot pigeon house, added photos of the pigeon house while it was built
2023-Oct-24, add: Maxwelton memories, added a new section
2023-Oct-07, add: Braeside Golf Club, added pictures of the water tower
2023-Sep-24, add: Anne Myles, added Sep 2023 N&V article
2023-Sep-24, add: Dowker Family Tree photos, added some Baby Bootlegger photos
2023-May-10, add: #20 Picardy, added photo of Claude Mailloux
2023-May-08, add: Town Hall expansion and restoration, more details
2023-May-07, add: Town Hall expansion and restoration, more Town Hall expansion details
2023-Feb-18, add: Town Hall expansion and restoration, added a chapter about the Town Hall expansion and restoration project
2023-Jan-27, add: The Morgan Family of Montreal, added "The Dovecote" by artist Atmo Zakes
2023-Jan-21, add: The Morgan Family of Montreal, added photos and the 1923 a brochure called "80 years of Merchandising"
2023-Jan-13, add: Dowker Family Tree, added more information about George Lamb
2023-Jan-05, add: The Maxwelton and #20 Picardy, Added some information about Marcel Mailloux, the herdsman at the Maxwellton
2022-Dec-23, add: The Maxwelton and #20 Picardy, added some photos of #20 Picardy
2022-Dec-23, add: Dowker Island, added some bird-eye views of dowker island
2022-Sep-11, add: St-Peter Street, Montreal, the Dowker downtown offices
2022-Sep-10, change: Then and now, added watercolor painting of the Fritz Barn by Jim Bruce
2022-Sep-08, change: Then and now, added a number of aerial photos (drone photos) provided by the town of Baie-D'Urfe
2022-Sep-07, add: The Bertold park flagpole
2022-Aug-17, change: Council and Mayors, new council; Dowker Family Tree, corrections to the tree thanks to Deborah Antonacci (via Stephen Dowker and Jon Dowker)
2022-Apr-21, change: Council and Mayors, Councillor Janet Ryan resigns
2022-Feb-12, change: George Fritz Farm in Beaconsfield, added information about 30 Sweetbriar Drive
2022-Jan-19, change: Dowker Island, information about Peter Lynch and Sophie Leblanc added
2021-Dec-16, change: Heritage house section, updated with additional historic photos
2021-Dec-04, change: The Baie-D'Urfe Municipal Council, 1911 to date, new council added
2021-Oct-25, change: The Dowker Family and Dowker Island, photos added, editorial changes.
2021-July-14, add: all N&V from 1955, historic News & Views
2021-June-19, add: photos of 20285 Lakeshore taken in 1894, Miss Esther Kerry photo album
2021-June-03, add: info about the 1936 chrysler airflow and town hall photo with that car parked next to town hall. I suspect that this was the car of Mayor Charles J. Smith
2021-June-02, add: Painting of the Little Green Schoolhouse by Hugh A. Valentine added
2021-May-14, change: Town Hall, 1930s color picture added, painting and drawing from the 1970s added
2021-May-12, add: Council and Mayors
2021-April-22, change: The Coop Scoop, documents added.
2021-April-17, change: Heritage house 20285 Lakeshore, historic pictures added.
2021-April-17, add: Dowker Family tree starting with Colonel George Dowker as well as family pictures.
2021-April-02, change: The Dowker Family and Dowker Island, many interesting pices of information and a lot of photos added.
2021-March-24, add: College Green house #7
2021-March-15, add: street signs
2021-Feb-14, change: The Morgan Family of Montreal, added some winter photos
2021-Feb-13, add: Collection of the first few issues of News & Views
2021-Feb-13, change: Photos of Coopers Garage
2021-Feb-03, add: Old trees on Dowker Island
2021-Jan-17, add: The George E. Fritz Farm in Beaconsfield
2020-Dec-22, add: Molson Family Tree, John Molson to J. David Molson
2020-Dec-10, change, heritage houses section: 20331/20329 Lakeshore
2020-Dec-10, change, heritage houses section: 20625 Lakeshore
2020-Nov-01, add: The Dowker Family and Dowker Island
2020-Oct-15, add: The Story of Abbe Francois-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfe
2020-Sep-26, add: Know your town
2020-Aug-27, change, Fritz section: The Fritz
2020-Aug-21, add: Memories
2020-Jul-04, add: Coat of arms
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2019-Jun-12, ...Baie-D'Urfe history project is online...

Acknowledgements

I would like to thank the following people who helped to make the Baie-D’Urfé History project possible. The list has no particular order.

Lynda Phelps
Chris Marsh, Baie-D'Urfe Library
Nadia Bissada
John Manning
Agi Rupert
Margaret Hill
Coleen Shaw
Walter Hrycyna
Pauline Faguy-Girard
Valérie Fortin
Jan Kubanek
McGill University Library
Sandy Knoepfel
Nancy Bélanger, BAnQ
Montreal Archives
The McCord Museum (Anne-Frédérique Beaulieu, Heather McNabb, Nicole Kelly)
Anne Myles
Prof. James Fraser
Albert Chasse
Leslie Dickie
Michel Poisson
Tom Cooper
Stéphanie Bonin
Constance Turnbull
Fred Dowker
Leonora (Lee) Dowker
Michel Bonin
Danielle Brabander
Heidi Ektvedt
Stephen Dowker, Jon Dowker, Deborah (Debbie) Antonacci
Henry Yates and Melodie Yates
Gillian Bennett
Donna Brown

Local Historical Societies

Beaconsfield: https://www.shbbhs.ca/, Société historique Beaurepaire-Beaconsfield
Baie-D'Urfé: https://bihs.neocities.org/, Ste-Anne-de-Bout-de-l'Ile Historical Society

Do you have some stories or pictures about Baie-D’Urfé that you would like to share? Come and join!

Contact: Guido Socher,

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