Jacques Pigeon

“All’s well that ends well”. Our fragile lake environment is now much better protected.

The title of this play from Shakespeare (circa 1623) summarizes well the conclusion of the zoning by-law debates around the huge Recreational Development Project ( WITRI) announced at a municipal meeting in Wentworth on February 24, 2019. Earlier this year,…

Jacques Pigeon2021-09-072021-09-07 Environment 3 Comments

Fibre connection accessible to most Dunany Homes before the end of this Summer.

Today, I am the bearer of good news! During a conversation on June 23 with Denis Huberdeau, CEO of Fibre Argenteuil, I learned that all key obstacles to the deployment of a fibre network in Argenteuil have now been lifted…

Jacques Pigeon2021-06-242021-06-24 General, Général 11 Comments

Fourteen years of tender loving care and four beautiful lakes in great shape.

As you know, there was no water sampling program on account of the pandemic. But your group of lake volunteers were still collecting transparency data so that we now have charts of our four lakes with 14 years of data…

Jacques Pigeon2021-04-152021-04-15 Environment 10 Comments

Lovely Miniatures from 11 artists of the Dunany Studio Artists group! Have a look!

Our artists are never short of ideas. Their latest is a series of miniature paintings that have just been posted on their Facebook page under Dunany Studio Artists. But not all of you are on Facebook and this is why…

Jacques Pigeon2021-02-262021-02-26 Culture 5 Comments

A quiet Christmas in Dunany, hope for the New Year and Best Wishes from the DCA and St-Paul’s Church.

Dunany usually comes back to life during the Holidays after a sleepy fall. Many of you would leave your home town to come celebrate with the locals. But not this year. There will be no Christmas Eve service at St-Paul’s.…

Jacques Pigeon2020-12-182020-12-19 General 6 Comments

A New Totem Pole in Dunany. Find out why? View the Gallery. Listen to the carver.

The story begins in August 1994 with the erection of a Totem Pole on the Tilden property on the south shore of Clear Lake. It was still there when the Hindle’s acquired the property but rot had already weakened it,…

Jacques Pigeon2020-11-18 Association 8 Comments

The Dunany Studio Artists Virtual Art Show is on. Have a look at their latest work.

Not even the pandemic could stop our artists from producing their art work. During the past few months, they have produced many paintings. More than a hundred are part of a permanent exhibition on Facebook under Dunany Studio Artists or…

Jacques Pigeon2020-10-312020-11-01 Culture 3 Comments

Stocking Trout in Dunany Lakes. This year Boyd and Clear. Try Fly Fishing next Spring.

Thanksgiving was a great day to do some fish stocking! Sunny with glorious colours but cool. Water temperature at 12 degrees, uncomfortable for us (euphemism) but perfect for trout. La Pisciculture Mont-Tremblant delivered 714 trout. 535 speckled (9 to 12…

Jacques Pigeon2020-10-162020-10-16 Association 4 Comments

Dunany Wetlands: find out where they are around your lake.

A few days ago I received the latest Newsletter from Abrinord, the organization responsible for the management of the North River Watershed. I was also asked to respond to a survey by filling a long questionnaire – which I did…

Jacques Pigeon2020-09-162020-09-18 Environment 2 Comments

Fibre Argenteuil deployment: Curran road this fall, rest of Dunany: March/April 2021.

The map below is part of the complete deployment map that was recently published by Fibre Argenteuil. I have blown up the part that concerns us directly. To view the full map, click here. Key elements: Deployment on Curran road…

Jacques Pigeon2020-07-182020-07-18 Municipal affairs 4 Comments

Inspiration for a Quilt. How John Parsons discovered the beauty of Water Shields.

Te beautiful Water-Shields (also called Dollar Bonnets) on Black lake continue to inspire John Parsons. Fittingly, he is this year’s designer of the famous Dunany Quilt which you will all be able to see along with some of his other…

Jacques Pigeon2020-07-082020-07-08 Association 10 Comments

Living peacefully with beavers, our discreet and emblematic herbivores.

Canadian beavers* are herbivores. Strict vegetarians! The eat bark, leaves and plants. They are active after dusk and stay away from humans. If you go swimming in the evening and get close to one it will flap its tail on…

Jacques Pigeon2020-05-262020-05-27 Environment 10 Comments

State Of Our Lakes is Good. #protectdunanylakes is the New Hashtag*!

Two years ago, my report on the state of our lakes bore this title Our 2017 lake results: are they too good to be believed? I now have the definite answer to my question. The answer is yes, they were!…

Jacques Pigeon2020-04-222020-04-22 Environment 4 Comments

Send me your Best Pictures of Dunany and I Will Make you Look Like a Pro!

Over the course of winter, when the DCA more or less on pause, I remodelled the Pictures of Dunany section of the site and built Galleries with a new application called FooGallery (crazy name but nice plugin!). There are now…

Jacques Pigeon2020-03-152020-03-23 Association 1 Comment

High Speed Internet throughout Argenteuil. There is progress. Be hopeful!

I received my first email through Fibre Argenteuil from a happy Louisa Road resident at 17:25 on Tuesday February 24. Mind you, this is a test but still, it is for real. I was told that 4 residents from this…

Jacques Pigeon2020-02-27 Municipal affairs 5 Comments

How much do you know about the history of Dunany. To find out, take the Quiz!

A few days ago we had some good friends for dinner and I was wondering how I could best entertain them. Then I had an idea! The Great Dunany Quiz was born. So I thought I should share it with…

Jacques Pigeon2020-02-162020-02-17 Association 9 Comments

Oh what a beautiful Bridge!

This picture is especially dedicated to those of you who have left Dunany for the winter and will only return when the ice has gone. Have a look at our new and beautiful bridge. It was finally opened on Monday…

Jacques Pigeon2019-12-182019-12-18 General 13 Comments

Celebrating Christmas in Dunany and wishing you all an equanimous * 2020.

It all began at Sheryl Caron’s place on Sunday December 15 where many Dunany residents had congregated to hear our Glee Club carolling. Next event is at St.Paul’s where, again this year, there will first be a Family Service at…

Jacques Pigeon2019-12-17 Association 6 Comments

Look at the official map of our watershed and find out how you can help protect our birds.

This is the official map of our watershed as produced by the MRC of Argenteuil. It is important for us as Dunany is defined by its watershed. Some residents here tried a couple of times to make Dunany a municipality.…

Jacques Pigeon2019-12-022019-12-02 Environment 2 Comments

Yes, winter is early but what better way to enjoy it than by joining in those activities.

And winter in Dunany can also be beautiful. Witness this lovely photo of Boyd Lake by Peter Wright! Lois Finch has aggregated all these activities for you. Interested in singing? Then join the Glee Club which will be active all…

Jacques Pigeon2019-11-172019-11-17 Association 2 Comments

I visited the construction site of the Dunany Bridge, met the project manager who told me …

… that the restoration job was going as planned. The bridge has been lifted by about a foot to allow for the replacement of the foundation blocks. The project manager was kind enough to go under the bridge with my…

Jacques Pigeon2019-10-09 General 13 Comments

DCA in full support of current Wentworth council and administration.

The following statement from the Board of Directors of the Dunany Community Association was sent to Mayor Jason Morrison of Wentworth, his councillors and key staff on Sunday, September 22, 2019. DCA in full support of current Wentworth council and…

Jacques Pigeon2019-09-22 Association 10 Comments

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This Web site is sponsored by the Dunany Community Association (DCA), a community based organization, made up of people who reside in proximity to its surrounding lakes: Clear, Boyd, Black and Curran, free of motor boats.

The association’s raison d’être is to protect, maintain and enhance the quality of its environment, notably the quality of the water in its four lakes. The association also supports the development of community spirit by enabling social and cultural activities.

The association was founded in 1963 and is managed by a volunteer Board of Directors. It works closely with the two other pillars of Dunany, namely the Dunany Country Club and the Church of St-Paul’s of Dunany.

Dunany is located in Canada's Laurentian Mountains, 10 km north of Lachute, and about an hour away from Montreal, Quebec.