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Correspondence on the opening of the Museum, 1938-1939, letter to Richard B. Bennet, June 2nd, 1938

Copy of a typed letter from Maude Abbott to R. B. Bennett dated June 2, 1938. She thanks him for his help with the Historical Society of Argenteuil County and The Barracks and invites him to visit St-Andrews.

Maude corresponded extensively with various Canadian political figures. Some of her letters to the country’s leaders piqued their curiosity and enabled her to advocate for the creation of the Museum at the federal level.

She enlisted the support of Richard B. Bennet, former Canadian prime minister and head of the Conservative Party; Thomas A. Crerar, Minister of Mines and Resources under the government of William Lyon Mackenzie King from 1936-1945; Sir George Perley, Member of Parliament for Argenteuil; and the Governor General of Canada, Lord Tweedsmuir. She invited them to come to Carillon to visit the building known at the time as “The Barracks”, which had been chosen to house the Argenteuil Regional Museum.