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2023 Heritage Calendars

2022-11-30

Our 2023 calendar of historical photos of Pointe-Claire is now on sale.
The price is $15 and the profits will go towards the Society’s activities and the restoration of the Windmill.
You can obtain one or more copies.

They’re available at:

Antiquités du Village
39 Av. Cartier
Pointe-Claire
H9S 4R5

Familiprix Clinique Pharmacie
308 Bord-du-Lac Road
Pointe-Claire
H9S 4L5

Moulins Lafayette
278 Bord-du-Lac Road
Pointe-Claire
H9S 4L2

Via our website:
https://patrimoinepointeclaire.org/shop/calendar/

By sending us a private message on Facebook or by email
at info@patrimoinepointeclaire.org to arrange for delivery or pick-up (delivery in Pointe-Claire and close surrounding areas only).

Annual general meeting

2022-11-19

Dear Members,

Our Annual General Meeting for this year will be held on Tuesday, November 29, 2022, at 7:00 PM, at the Pointe-Claire Curling Club, 250 Lanthier Ave., Pointe-Claire, QC H9S 4R1.

We will notably be discussing the restoration of the Windmill and our fundraising campaign in support of this project. We will have a 2023 calendar for sale this year, available at the AGM, and you will also have the opportunity to renew your membership card.

We look forward to seeing you there.

Invitation – SSPPC’s 2021-2022 Annual General Meeting

2022-01-04

Dear Members,

I am writing to invite you to our Annual General Meeting. I hope you and your families are in good health and would like to take this opportunity to wish you a happy New Year 2022.

The Directors of the Pointe-Claire Heritage Preservation Society remained active in 2021. In particular, we have made available several of our photos and historical texts on our Facebook page, revamped our website, continued our research on an eventual book and offered our Christmas cards again. We have also started some promising discussions with the Archdiocese of Montreal regarding the future of the Windmill and its restoration. After the more difficult relations with City Hall in recent years, we hope to finally be able to turn the page with the swearing-in of a new mayor who has clearly committed to heritage protection. Moreover, the new Mayor, Mr. Tim Thomas, will be present at our AGM as a guest and will briefly address you.

Due to the uncertainty surrounding the pandemic, it was not possible to meet in person in 2021 to hold our Annual General Meeting. In this context, we have decided to hold our virtual annual meeting using the ZOOM platform.

This meeting will take place on Wednesday January 19th, 2022 at 7:00 PM.

In anticipation of the meeting, I would like to point out to you that you must be a member to have the right to vote at our AGM. Due to the practice of many of our members of paying and renewing in person at AGMs, we have suspended the annual membership fees for current members until an upcoming, in person AGM  is held. New members can send a cheque in the amount of $20 to: Société pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de Pointe-Claire, PO Box 1092, succ. Pointe-Claire, Pointe-Claire (Quebec) H9S 34H9. It is also possible to join via our website.

We hope to see you soon,

Andrew Swidzinski, President
Pointe-Claire Heritage Preservation Society

Pointe-Claire Hotel / The Pioneer – We invite you to join our efforts and get involved! 

2018-08-01

As you probably already know, the building which housed until recently the Pioneer, the former Pointe-Claire Hotel, is now at risk of disappearing. The notice concerning its demolition, posted by the City of Pointe-Claire on July 18 in front of the 286 Lakeshore Road building now make this very clear. The Société pour la Sauvegarde du Patrimoine de Pointe-Claire strongly objects to this new threat to our exceptional architectural heritage.

In order to block the proposed demolition, two opened letters penned by our former president Claude Arsenault have been published in both French (Le Devoir and La Presse) and English (The Suburban) in various newspapers, who have relayed the news. An online petition,which is still online, and its printed version have allowed to gather close to 4000 signatures. More letters, written by persons who wish to save our architectural heritage, continue to be sent to City Hall. The level of citizen implication over this issue is and continues to be extremely impressive. To learn more about it, you can visit the page Save Le Pionnier.

The Pointe-Claire Hotel building is of great historical and heritage interest. From the time of its construction in 1900, it already carryed heritage significance of an earlier hotel built on the same site during the 18th Century and lost to the great village fire of 1900. It reminds us of the historic period of vacationers, when Pointe-Claire was a destination of choice. Among them, many eventually settled on the shores of Lake Saint-Louis in the early 1900s, contributing to the development of areas like Bowling Green and Golf Avenue. For their descendants, the former Pointe-Claire Hotel is better known under its more recent identity – the Pioneer Bar and Restaurant – and they will keep of it the memory of a well appreciate venue. From an architectural point of view, even though the present state of the building reminds us of the many modifications that have affected it over the years, its attributes are precious remnants of the building’s original lustre. With the help of old photographs, it would be quite possible to restore the building and give it back its original appearance, thereby respecting its historic and heritage value.

We further consider that the proposed re-development project – a massive complex of luxury condominiums – would significantly disfigure Pointe-Claire village’s core in a permanent way and reduce its special spirit and cachet. The area would undeniably lose much of its charm and interest if the old Pointe-Claire Hotel was replaced by imposing condominiums, poorly integrated into the village’s present physical and social fabric.

We also object considering the project overlaps onto the public parking lot adjacent to the Pointe-Claire Hotel, which the City is selling to the promoter at a price that seems inferior to the lot’s market value.

And so it is that we firmly object to the demolition of this building, which is of major heritage and historical significance for the village of Pointe-Claire. For this purpose, we have prepared a brief which was addressed to the members of the demolition committee and deposited at City Hall on Friday.

We invite you to join our efforts and get involved!

To voice your own opposition to the demolition of the former Pointe-Claire Hotel, you can send letters, as soon as possible and before August 9, to the Legal Affairs City Clerk’s Office for the Demolition Committee. We encourage you to write personalized letters to the Demolition Committee members, to your councillor and to the mayor. But, above all, we invite you to attend the public meeting concerning the demolition that will held on August 9 at 7h30 pm at the Holiday Inn and Suites Pointe-Claire, “Champagne” room, at 6700 TransCanada Highway. This room holds 700 places; it will be important that we show up in great numbers to express lous and clear our opposition to this project, which could prove disastrous for our village. Invite your family, your neighbours and your friends! Spread the word around you!

We also ask your help and involvement, as we are searching for volunteers to make phone calls, go door too door, help with carpooling, etc. and contribute with ideas and input that can help us with our awareness campaign. Such a campaign also requires funding. If you are able to help in that regard, please contact us at 514-693-9114 or write to us at info@patrimoinepointeclaire.org.

As a heritage protection society, we have a voice that we must use with conviction, making sure that it is heard loud and clear and bringing to bear the full weight that you, our members, confer it. With this in mind, we urge you to get involved for the sake of our village and that of future generations.

Please highlight the August 9th date on your agendas. We look forward to seeing you there in great numbers!

2018-06-29

Dear friends,

True to our usual habits, we are sharing with you a few articles concerning Heritage protection issues that have appeared in the media these last few days.

As one of these brings attention to an opinion letter by Claude Arsenault, published in Le Devoir last week, we wish to mention the fact that this letter, written by our former president from a Pointe-Claire resident’s personal point of view, does not necessarily reflect the SSPPC’s official
position.

We mention this because as Claude himself points out : “On June 11, 2018, I resigned from my position as President and Board Member of the SSPPC. I made that decision in order to be able from now on to express my opinion openly and freely, without fear that my statements incur responses from the City of Pointe-Claire that could have negative impact on the SSPPC’s
work, as they have in the past.”

And so it is that, even though the SSPPC is also preoccupied by the risk of demolition that faces the former Pointe-Claire Hotel/The Pioneer and that it shares with Claude the wish to avoid the disappearance of an historic landmark with heritage value from the heart of Pointe-Claire village, we wish to remind you of Claude’s new status. His words reflect only his own opinions. By the same token, we also wish to reassure you in regard to our Société’s commitment to actively continue to pursue its Heritage preservation mission.

Michel Forest, SSPPC President

See also:

The Gazette:

Pointe-Claire heritage preservation advocate resigns in disgust

The Suburban:

http://www.thesuburban.com/opinion/op_ed/call-to-preserve-pointe-claire-village/article_df38357e-ef15-5129-b30c-927b2005b0f5.html