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Credits

This project was realized by the Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David. The two project managers are also the researchers, designers, editors and authors:

  • Denis Vézina, vice-president of the Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David
  • Paul Carle, president of the Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David
  • English translation by Owen Hughes

The Val-David Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David would like to thank Mr. Gilles Mathieu and the Musée de la chanson du Québec et de la Butte à Mathieu for the testimonies and details provided and an access to their archives.

Thanks to Ronald Labelle, photographer, and the municipality of Val-David for allowing us to reproduce images and documents concerning the Butte.

Montage of colour photographs of the covers of published documents on the history of La Butte à Mathieu. illustrated by a photograph.

For more information

Rivière, Sylvain and Mathieu, Gilles; La Butte à Mathieu, 2010, VLB éditeur, 168 pages.

Rivière, Sylvain and Labelle Ronald; La Butte à Mathieu, berceau de la chanson québécoise, 2021, Les Éditions GID, 228 pages.
(this last volume is still available from Gilles Mathieu; please contact him at 438- 883-7832 )

You can also find information on the Butte à Mathieu and Val-David on the following websites:

Report on the Butte à Mathieu at the Radio-Canada Archives published on July 2, 2021.

Interview with Gilles Mathieu in 1964 at the Radio-Canada Archives.

NousTV, a 15-minute program with Gilles Mathieu talking about the exhibition presented as part of the Val-David centennial in 2021.

An interview with Gilles Mathieu and Louise Arbique in the Val-David newspaper Zig-Zag.

Montage of colour photographs of the covers of five published books on the history of Val-David illustrated by a photograph or a drawing.

About the Laurentians:

Carle, Paul et Allard Michel (sous la direction de), Val-David, terre d’accueil, quelques éléments d’histoire, 2021, Éditions conjointe Ski-se-dit et Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David, 285 pages.

Dufresne, Marie-Andrée; Val-David : fragments d’histoire, 1996, Val-David, 104 pages.

Laurin, Serge ; Sainte-Agathe-des-monts, un siècle et demi d’histoire, Québec, Presses de l’Université Laval, 2002, 340 pages.

Laurin, Serge; Histoire des Laurentides, Institut québécois de recherche sur la culture, Ville St-Laurent, 1989, 896 pages.

Proulx, Claude; Val-David : son histoire, son patrimoine, 2001, La Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David, 204 pages.

The website of Société d’histoire et du patrimoine de Val-David.

Honours and Recognitions