One hundred years ago, on September 2, 1920, the Archives nationales du Québec was created and Pierre-Georges Roy, an historian and journalist, was appointed the province’s first chief archivist.
In Issue 105 of the magazine, À rayons ouverts, dedicated to the 100th anniversary of the provincial archives, Jean-Louis Roy, the current president and CEO of Bibliothèque et Archives nationales du Québec (BAnQ), describes the archives as “the soul of a nation.”
If BAnQ has planned a special initiative to mark the milestone anniversary beyond a magazine issue and a couple of posts on social media, they haven’t publicly stated what it is. C’est dommage.
