On its YouTube channel, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network has posted the fifth episode of season two of its series, Raising Spirits: Exploring the Cemeteries, Crossroads and Vanishing Places of Quebec, that was filmed in the Laurentians region of Quebec.
In the latest episode, Shrewsbury, Laurentians’ writer Don Stewart speaks about a small rural village that was settled by Irish immigrants in the mid-19th century.
The previous episode was about Scotch Road. “In the early 19th century, displaced families from Scotland traversed a rugged and heavily-forested wilderness to create a new settlement they could finally call home. Cecil McPhee, a descendant of one of the families, conveys a heart-felt story in a place that no longer exists except for a neatly kept graveyard.”
Another series on this YouTube channel that may interest family historians is the Scandal Makers, which has five episodes, including one about a particular headstone in St. James Cemetery, an English Protestant burial ground in Trois-Rivières.
Most of the videos on the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network’s YouTube channel range from about 15 to 20 minutes — just long enough to watch while sipping a cup of coffee or tea.
The Raising Spirits and Scandal Makers series were funded by Heritage Canada.
