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Wednesday, February 26, 2025 1:30 pm -- Paradise Lost - The Canadian Dreams of Baron Empain

Speaker: Joseph Graham

Joseph presented the intriguing story of Baron Louis Empain’s Art Deco resort Domaine-Estérel that the Baron tried to create in the 1930s in Ste-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson in the Laurentians as well as details of his other holdings in of Canada and elsewhere.

Related material:

Dream Resurrected, a QAHN article by Joseph Graham: Jan-Feb-2007-QHN-joe-graham.pdf, (full 2007 edition: https://qahn.org/sites/default/files/QHN%20Back%20Issues/Jan-Feb%202007%20QHN.PDF.pdf)
Wikipedia page on Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson
Illegal demolition of the Domaine-de-l’Estérel shopping center: https://www.lapresse.ca/actualites/2022-05-13/domaine-de-l-esterel/un-immeuble-patrimonial-detruit-illegalement.php, (English translation)
Joe and Sheila maintain a website about their work at: https://www.ballyhoo.ca

[The Canadian Dreams of Baron Empain, discussions after the meeting]

Discussions after Joe's presentation

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