Exhibit on the Irish in Rawdon

The research team behind this exhibit used numerous sources of information to document its content. First and foremost, they drew on their own websites, publications and personal archives, which include:

• Société d’histoire de Rawdon : histoirederawdon.ca
• Blagrave Prudhomme, Beverly : Rawdon History website
• Parkinson, Daniel, Up to Rawdon - Part One and Part Two
• Jolivet, Simon, Le vert et le bleu — Identité québécoise et identité irlandaise au tournant du XXe siècle, Les Presses de l’Université de Montréal, 2011

Numerous government agency websites were consulted, including the following:

• Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (Library and National Archives of Quebec)
• Library and Archives Canada
• Greffe de l’arpenteur-général du Québec (Registry of the Surveyor General of Quebec)
• Registre foncier du Québec (Land Register of Quebec)

Reference books on the history of Rawdon were also used, particularly the following:

• Brady, Gérard, My village, 1995
• Brady, Gérard, Une bien belle histoire / Rawdon: A Human Mosaic, 1987
• Collective, Sur la route des souvenirs : gens du chemin Kildare et des environs, 2014
• Fournier, Marcel, Rawdon :175 ans d’histoire, Joliette, 1974.

It should be noted that Marcel Fournier’s book is also available in electronic format on this website.

The contributions of other history buffs, such as Yves Forest, Clément Locat and Guillaume Petit (Chroniques anachroniques website), are also worthy of note.

Although the Société d’histoire de Rawdon has taken all the necessary measures to ensure the accuracy of the information contained in this exhibit, it is always possible that clarifications may need to be made or errors corrected. Should any omissions or errors be found, please let us know. The Société d’histoire de Rawdon will make the required corrections.