My grandparents, Albert Tremblay and Margaret Roy, had 15 children, whom they raised in Saint-Clément, a village located near Rivière-du-Loup, Bas-Saint-Laurent. He was a blacksmith, she, a dressmaker. They have also been farmers for 17 years and traders for seven years (general store).
My grandmother had a 6th grade, but she loved to read. This leisure ativity was of such importance she would not have missed for all the gold in the world the Sunday pilgrimage to church, where was located the library (magnificent church, by the way). At that time the village had 1200 residents. My grandmother and her children were standing in line to choose unpretentious readings . Because my grandmother loved to read, she could write with very little spelling mistakes. And it is through writing that she offered a gift of family history, by giving each child a book recounting the birth of all of them. Because love is told with words, and so history.
In 1980, my aunt Yolande Tremblay moved the library out of the church of to the Recreation Center. This will be the first library affiliated to the central library loans Ports. It is with pride that I learned recently that the Bas-Saint-Laurent region has the highest rate of library use (text to come on the blog). The population of Saint-Clément is today around 530. The library service is still available, now in the community center. This little town has lost the post office despite the fierce resistance of the people who occupied the premises for 59 days. Never mind, it created the first Center for Community Internet Access in eastern Quebec in the disused Canada Post premises. Moreover, despite its smallness, the community has a development officer. It is never too small to think big.
I always saw my mother with a book in her hands before going to sleep at night and she often slept on his book. It was natural for her to offer me books as gifts. They were beautiful surprisesand I appreciated them . And I as well read in front of my children. The books go from the night table to the kitchen, from the office to the living room and, yes, to the bathroom ... In my children's bedrooms, there are shelves for books that they can reach. And we visit the municipal library. For the pleasure of discovery, for the pleasure of getting suggestions relating to concerns of the day (fear of bugs taste for mixing colors, interest in the sounds we hear ...) My elder, which is three years old, takes pleasure in reading the same volumes throughout the duration of the loan, so much so that he can fill himself sentences, sometimes even repeating them word for word.
That is how I want to educate my children: by giving them the words that will allow them to interact with others, create, think objectively and independently, to express their opinions and their rights and thus to participate fully in society.
Cynthia Dubé
Brownsburg-Chatham resident
The council is studying various scenarios for a new library in a horizon of 1 or 2 years. Let us speak up and express our need and desire for a library as we deserve. Let us speak up and express our need and desire for a library as we deserve. Why do we believe our library to be important? What does she bring us? Or why are we not going? What would lead us to attend? What kind of library do we dream of? What inspiring and great libraries have we visited?
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