Lake Road [English]

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The road leading to the lakes, it couldn’t be simpler
You think you’ve reached your destination when the route starts to look back at you
Memories in place
Mapping the wrong way
Someone, some day, inversed and changed the names of the lakes, and then told them to Google
Google repeated them
And now, tongues circle the lakes seven times before locating them when it’s time to tell their stories
Nothing is black and white anymore
Certainly not Lac Noir or Lac Blanc
The place is a reminder that maps say
What we want them to say
Expose the ventriloquism

DÉCOUVRIR > tous les lieux-dits de cette ville

AUDIO

Interview with Sandi Beebe, April 8, 2025.

Explaining the confusion about the names of the lakes.

[FRANGLAIS] Interview with Robert Munroe, Lynden Bechervaise and Marc Babin, April 11, 2025.

A reservoir of mud, carving blocks of ice. “They used to transport water in molasses barrels.”

It is also in this place that we find the Lover’s Lane.

IMAGES

1. Montreal Import Co. publisher, front of a postcard “Judge Tremblay’s Summer House, Mount Elide; New Carlilse, Que.”, [19–]. Bibliothèque nationale, 2632600.

2. T.J. Caldwell éditeur, recto d’une carte postale “Scene in Route to Lakes, New Carlilse, P.Q.”, [19–]. Bibliothèque nationale, 2645408.

3. to 7. and 9 to 13. Marie-Claude De Souza, 2026.

8. Montreal Import Co. publisher, front of a postcard “Judge Temblay’s boat house & Lake from Mount Elide; New Carlisle, Que.”, [19–]. Bibliothèque nationale, 2641467.