Lac à Menouche [English]

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Menouche (Raymond-Marie Bujold) was the son of Albert Bujold. “We used to call it lac à Albert (Albert’s Lake), and the younger ones called it lac à Menouche (Menouche’s Lake).”¹ People ice-skated there. Sometimes, the bravest would fall into the freezing water. “There’s always a spot on the lake, where the water flows in and out, that does not freeze.”² It was always “Who dares get the closest?”³

“My parents never really worried… Not like today’s parents.”⁴

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AUDIO

[FRENCH] Interview with Marie-Louis and Monette Bourdages, April 10, 2025.

“It was a place for first love.”

[FRENCH] Interview with Pâquerette Poirier and Michel Beaupré, May 15, 2025.

A place enjoyed generation to generation.

NOTES

¹ Marie-Louis Bourdages, story collected by the artist, April 10, 2025.

² Pâquerette Poirier, story collected by the artist, May 15, 2025.

³ Marie-Louis Bourdages, op. cit. 

⁴ Pâquerette Poirier, op. cit.

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1. Marie-Claude De Souza, 2026.