Jacques Pigeon

Who were the First Inhabitants of our Area, and to which Nation did they Belong?

We have been calling them Algonquins but they now prefer to be known as the Anishinaabe nation. They occupied most of the Ottawa (Adawe in the Algonquin langage) River watershed which was, in effect, their heartland. Historically, their language –…

Jacques Pigeon2023-11-032023-11-03 General

Celebrating St.Paul’s 10th Pray and Play with enthusiasm and good news for our Church.

Our Community is built on three pillars: Church, Country Club and Association. Last Sunday, September 17, both the Golf Club and the Association were there to support St.Paul’s Pray and Play 10th Golf Tournament which generates essential revenue for the…

Jacques Pigeon2023-09-19 St-Paul

How to Reduce the Risks Associated with Climate Change in Dunany.

Last year, during the derecho on May 21st, a cottage at Clear Lake was completely demolished by the fall of a large tree, swept away by violent winds. The two people inside were only slightly injured. Fortunately. But they had…

Jacques Pigeon2023-08-022023-09-01 Environment

The Key Issues Facing Quebec’s Lakes: Invasive Exotic Plants, Navigation, Governance, and Climate Change.

France and I participated in the Forum national sur les lacs on June 7th and 8th, held at Mont-Tremblant. In the following lines, I will share with you the main challenges and initiatives undertaken during this summit to better protect…

Jacques Pigeon2023-06-152023-06-15 Environment

SPANK is back! Details of this summer’s program are here. And there are more activities for you. Lots more!

Welcome back to SPANK! The Dunany paddling tradition rides again in 2023, with a back-to-basics four-event schedule, one on each of our lakes: Black, Boyd, Clear, Curran. This picture was taken at the first ever SPANK on July 10, 2010.…

Jacques Pigeon2023-05-062023-07-27 Association

Our lakes are very healthy. Curious as to how we come to this conclusion? Read on!

Our planet was born 4.55 billion years ago. The Laurentians appeared about 1,2 billion * years ago . Our lakes, about 10,000 years ago. Our association celebrates its 60th anniversary this year. And our lakes are all still very healthy.…

Jacques Pigeon2023-03-132023-03-13 Environment

I asked ChatGPT what are the best ways to improve the quality of the water in our lakes. Read what the hot Open AI robot gave me.

Most of you have probably heard about artificial intelligence AI. The most talked about product these days is called ChatGPT. It is a large language model that can generate human-like text, trained on a massive dataset of written works from…

Jacques Pigeon2023-02-082023-02-08 Environment

The DCA Wishes you Great Holidays and Suggests Help for Brave Ukrainians without Heat and Electricity.

Traditional Ukrainian Christmas festivities start on Christmas Eve, which is celebrated on January 6, as reckoned by the Julian calendar. The Christmas celebrations end on January 19, the date of the celebration of the Baptism of Jesus, known in Ukraine…

Jacques Pigeon2022-12-162022-12-16 General

About our Lakes, Loons, Mussels and Beavers.

I have just received the results of the water sampling in our lakes that we, the gang of 7: Bonnie, André, François, Lois and Jim, France and I, collected last summer. The data is that of healthy lakes. The most…

Jacques Pigeon2022-11-232022-11-23 General

A Special Pray and Play in 2022 and a Tribute to St. Paul’s Beloved Warden Wendy Crooks.

Robert Percy, Grand Master of the St. Paul’s Omnium, otherwise known as Pray and Play, had a particularly challenging year. He had first planned the event for Sunday May 22, but an intense storm called a derecho hit Dunany really…

Jacques Pigeon2022-09-212022-09-21 Association, St-Paul

Dunany Studio Artists: another successful Exhibition in 2022, a great illustration of our exceptional community spirit.

The annual Exhibition of our Artists which was held in person this year is a perfect illustration of the community spirit that reigns supreme in Dunany. Why? Because the organisation of events such as this one, and the Music Fest…

Jacques Pigeon2022-09-012022-09-01 Culture

DCA celebrates Country Club centennial and Robert Percy for his great contribution to the Dunany Community.

The day was July 24, 2022. More than 50 Dunany residents were at the Country Club to attend the Annual General Meeting of their association. But that was not all. There were two noteworthy events to follow. The first one…

Jacques Pigeon2022-07-262022-07-26 Association

What you should all know about Eurasian Watermilfoil and, especially, how to prevent its arrival in Dunany Lakes.

As the guy in charge of lake management in Dunany I was asked the other day: is there anything that keeps you awake at night? I said yes. Definitely. Its Eurasian Watermilfoil. Why is that? Simply because once a lake…

Jacques Pigeon2022-07-052022-07-05 Environment

St-Paul’s 2022 Newsletter. A new Association, Pray and Play, and a Memorial Hymn and Song Book.

Dunany, during the last two difficult years, has remained resilient and steadfast in the face of the covid pandemic. The world news challenges us every day to remain mindful of the privilege we have in our Dunany Community. We will…

Jacques Pigeon2022-04-242022-04-24 St-Paul

Our Lakes are in Good Health. Five Steps we Must All Take to Keep Them that Way.

The results for 2021 are in. Have a look at the charts! Boyd – Black – Clear – Curran. All four are classified oligotrophic, that is lakes that have ” low nutrient content and are considered geologically young, or little…

Jacques Pigeon2022-03-052023-09-01 Environment, Environnement

2021 was a Pretty Good Year in Dunany until Omicron showed up. Best Wishes from St-Paul’s and the DCA for a serene 2022.

It was a pretty good year indeed. It was the year Fibre Argenteuil finally arrived in Dunany. It was a year when our Artist held one of their best expositions ever. It was a year when our water samplings showed…

Jacques Pigeon2021-12-222021-12-22 Association

Support Dunany Artists! View samples of their Exposition in Lachute last November.

Have a look at these paintings! They are a small sample of the works that our Artists are exhibiting in Lachute beginning November 5, 2021. The Exhibition, entitled “Laurentian Seasons”, is held at at the permanent Route des Arts Gallery.…

Jacques Pigeon2021-10-172022-05-06 General

Fibre Argenteuil is now wiring Dunany. Subscribe now to enjoy real High Speed Internet this fall.

You have probably seen trucks from Fibre Argenteuil and Telecon on Dunany roads in recent days. There has been a lot of activity: Deployment of the main fibre cable by subcontractor Telecon on Dunany road and branches. Wednesday, they were…

Jacques Pigeon2021-10-012021-10-03 General

“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 Pigeon2021-09-072022-03-18 Environment

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

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

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

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

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

The 2020 Dunany Studio Artists Virtual Art Show. 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 Pigeon2020-10-312022-05-06 Culture

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

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

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