Notre petit projet encourage naturellement les voyageurs de nous envoyer des cartes postales. Mais comme plusieurs amis et parents voulaient participer au projet mais ne comptaient pas voyager durant les 100 jours du projet, nous avons reçu plusieurs cartes postales des quatre coins du Québec!
De notre ami Lucas (9 ans), une image de pêche sur la glace à Saint-Anne-de-la-Pérade. Le soleil de fin d'après-midi illumine les petites cabanes blanches, vertes, jaunes entourées de neige et de glace. À Sainte-Eustache, ma chère tante Henriette à entamé une vraie recherche historique en ce pointant à la mairie et demandant s'il existait des cartes postales de la ville. Elle en a trouvé plein! L'église historique de Saint-Eustache qui date de 1768, le moulin Legaré construit en 1762, le Manoir Globenski, reconstruit en 1901 après un incendie, une érablière, le couvent des soeurs de la Congrégation Notre-Dame, la maison Chénier-Sauvé (qui a appartenu à cinq députés dont le premier ministre Paul Sauvé et encore d'autres! Lucie, qui fut l'éducatrice de Jonah quand il avait 3 ans, a déniché une carte postale qui date de la construction de du complex La Grande, en Baie James; son père y travaillait. Et Diane, une amie d'enfance, a envoyé un couché de soleil sur les Îles de la Madeleines! Wow, quel beau coin de la terre...
From La Belle Province
Our little project is an obvious attraction for travellers. But lots of friends and family wanted to participate even though they were not planning on travelling in the 100 days of the project. So they sent postcards from Québec!
Our friend Lucas (9 years old) sent a post card of ice fishing in Sainte-Anne-de-Pérade. The colourful little shacks are all aglow in thegolden light of the late afternoon winter sun. My aunt Henriette was undeterred and accepted the challenge of finding postcards from Saint-Eustache. She headed down to city hall and found dozens of postcards! The town's church, built in 1768; a mill built in 1767; Globenski Manor, rebuilt after a fire in 1901; the convent of the sisters of the Congregation of Notre Dame; a sugar shack; a home that once belonged to Premier Paul Sauvé and even more! One of Jonah's former daycare teachers, Lucie, sent a vintage card of the road being built in James Bay for the La Grande project (her dad worked their). And my old high school friend Diane sent a gorgeous sunset from the Magdelene Islands. What a beautiful place!
Monday, November 22, 2010
Saturday, November 6, 2010
A card from China!
This week's mail brought us a postcard from Beijing, China! It comes from a Chinese friend of mine who lived in Montreal briefly and now lives back home with her husband and 3-year old son. I'm so happy to be back in touch with her, and it's all thanks to this project.
In fact, the project is providing us with a great reason get in touch with friends and family we don't see or talk to as often as we would like. Busy lives, you know how it goes. But we are so touched by the response from our friends and family! They're sending postcards and sharing stories, whether they're at home or travelling. Some are making it a project of their own: Mamie, one of Jonah's grandmothers, sent postcards from every destination on a recent Mediterranean cruise; Denise, a former colleague of Sarah's (Jonah's other mom) lives in England now and has been sending postcards from all of her travels in Great Britain and Europe. My uncle André sends wonderful postcards from Québec City full of tales of what he would show Jonah if Jonah came to visit: Château Frontenac, the Citadelle, the Place Royale. He also sends postcards from past travels, and I`m discovering what an amazing, adventurous spirit he and my aunt Danielle have! People from Montreal are being creative and sending images of Montreal 100 years ago, or of special landmarks.
I have to admit that Sarah and I are far more excited about the project than Jonah. He loves seeing new postcards and we read them all to him. But he doesn't seize how totally awesome it is in the same way we do. We figure he will when he's all grown up! Also, when we show the project to the class and everyone else sees it.
(Français à venir! Merci de votre patience.)
In fact, the project is providing us with a great reason get in touch with friends and family we don't see or talk to as often as we would like. Busy lives, you know how it goes. But we are so touched by the response from our friends and family! They're sending postcards and sharing stories, whether they're at home or travelling. Some are making it a project of their own: Mamie, one of Jonah's grandmothers, sent postcards from every destination on a recent Mediterranean cruise; Denise, a former colleague of Sarah's (Jonah's other mom) lives in England now and has been sending postcards from all of her travels in Great Britain and Europe. My uncle André sends wonderful postcards from Québec City full of tales of what he would show Jonah if Jonah came to visit: Château Frontenac, the Citadelle, the Place Royale. He also sends postcards from past travels, and I`m discovering what an amazing, adventurous spirit he and my aunt Danielle have! People from Montreal are being creative and sending images of Montreal 100 years ago, or of special landmarks.
I have to admit that Sarah and I are far more excited about the project than Jonah. He loves seeing new postcards and we read them all to him. But he doesn't seize how totally awesome it is in the same way we do. We figure he will when he's all grown up! Also, when we show the project to the class and everyone else sees it.
(Français à venir! Merci de votre patience.)
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