Hello, everybody. I'm pleased to be here.
Founded in 2000, the Quebec Anglophone Heritage Network, QAHN, or the RPAQ, Réseau du patrimoine anglophone du Québec, is a non-profit, non-partisan umbrella organization of some 90 historical societies, local museums, and other cultural and heritage organizations spread out all over the province of Quebec and concerned with heritage. We also have about 250 individual members.
QAHN aims to promote a greater understanding of the history of Quebec's English-speaking communities by informing, connecting, and inspiring members and the greater public through our publications, our projects, and various events we hold. Membership is open to any organization or individual, regardless of language or cultural affiliation, with a positive interest in the history, heritage, and culture of Quebec's English-speaking communities. Our membership, in fact, includes a number of essentially francophone organizations across Quebec as well.
We have three priority goals: strengthening our core membership through providing opportunities for networking, communication, and collaboration on projects and other member services; engaging our local communities, providing strategies and tools to encourage more Quebeckers to join, use, and support the work of volunteer-based local heritage organizations; and making our stories known through our print, magazine, and online publications and through the activities of local organizations whose work we support and encourage.
I'll turn you over to Rod MacLeod, our past president.