{"id":6831,"date":"2015-11-15T09:56:07","date_gmt":"2015-11-15T14:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2018-02-10T14:51:55","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T19:51:55","slug":"georges-hebert-germain-journalist-author-columnist-passionate-about-dunany-dies-age-71","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/georges-hebert-germain-journalist-author-columnist-passionate-about-dunany-dies-age-71\/6831","title":{"rendered":"Georges-H\u00e9bert Germain, journalist, author, columnist, passionate about Dunany, dies age 71"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dunany has just lost one it&#8217;s most famous residents.<\/p>\n<p>Georges-H\u00e9bert Germain bought the Wilson house on Clear lake about thirty years ago. Those of us who live in the eastern section of the lake knew him well. I am one of them as my house faces his on the other side of the lake.<\/p>\n<p>I remember a beautiful summer day, not long after our arrival in Dunany 19 years ago. \u00a0France and I swam to his dock to introduce ourselves. Georges-H\u00e9bert and his wife Francine Chaloult invited us inside for a visit of that beautiful house that he loved so much.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6823\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Georges-H\u00e9bert-Germain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6823\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6823\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Georges-H\u00e9bert-Germain-277x300.jpg\" alt=\"Georges-H\u00e9bert Germain\" width=\"277\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Georges-H\u00e9bert-Germain-277x300.jpg 277w, https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Georges-H\u00e9bert-Germain.jpg 440w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 277px) 100vw, 277px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Georges-H\u00e9bert Germain<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Georges-H\u00e9bert often attended the DCA&#8217;s Annual General Meetings. He was very involved in the fund raising campaigns of la\u00a0Fondation de l &#8216;h\u00f4pital d&#8217;Argenteuil.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, he was made chevalier de l&#8217;Ordre du m\u00e9rite du Qu\u00e9bec.\u00a0When I looked at the group picture in the newspapers I could not find him. Cancer &#8211; brain cancer in this case &#8211; had totally transformed him.<\/p>\n<p>If you wish to know more about this fine gentlemen, <a href=\"http:\/\/ici.radio-canada.ca\/nouvelles\/arts_et_spectacles\/2015\/11\/14\/002-germain-georges-auteur-mort-bios-celine-bourassa.shtml\">follow this link (en fran\u00e7ais)<\/a><\/p>\n<p>We will miss you, Georges-H\u00e9bert.<\/p>\n<p>To Francine, his daughter\u00a0Rafa\u00eble and the whole family the DCA offers it&#8217;s deepest condolences.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dunany has just lost one it&#8217;s most famous residents. Georges-H\u00e9bert Germain bought the Wilson house on Clear lake about thirty years ago. Those of us who live in the eastern section of the lake knew him well. I am one&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6837,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dunany.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}