Mr. Speaker, the parish of Saint-Henri de Mascouche was born in 1750. At that point, its population was 542. This year, the municipality with a population of over 29,000 celebrates its 250th anniversary.
The committee organizing the celebrations, chaired by Pierre Raymond, has prepared a highly varied program of activities that will enable everyone to find an opportunity at least once during the year to celebrate Mascouche of yesterday, today and tomorrow.
I would like to pay tribute to the superb job done by the members of the 250th album committee. They are: Thérèse Patenaude, Huguette Lévesque-Lamoureux, France Tremblay, Diane Beaudet, Chantal Filion and Bernard Patenaude, past committee chair and mayor, Gilles Forest, former mayor, Laurent Crépeau, Donald Mailly, René Archer, Louis Duval, Julien Mckay and historian Denis Gravel, the source of the historical side of the album.
Well done and thanks from the people.