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Presentation
Incorporated in 1998 through the initiative of some citizens
of Douglastown, the Douglas Community Center has allowed
the recuperation and the renovation of the village school,
the St.Patrick Central School (1956), a 3 storey building
with a surface area of 1650 m2. Since that time the Center
offers services and activities for the some 650 people almost
equally split between the English and French communities.
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From
then to now
Douglastown obtained its canonic status as a catholic parish in
1860; 20 years later, Douglastown officially became a municipality.
At the beginning, lands of the Douglas County were devised to be
offered to the Loyalists who were leaving the American rebellion;
finally a few decided to stay in the Gaspe area. Some of the oldest
families are Kennedy, Walsh, Briand, Morris, Holland, McDonald and
the Rooney; most of them represent the Irish roots of the community.
Some 900 persons were registered in mid-XIX; a hundred years later
the population was still the same but the French Canadian community
grew from 4 to 20 %. As in many other peninsula villages, the main
economic activities were fisheries (cod, lobster, salmon) and forestry.
Douglastown became part of the city of Gaspe in 1979. To
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Objectives
The Community Center is a non profitable organization (OBNL)
ruled by the Loi sur les compagnies, Partie III; its
objectives, defined by its members, cover 3 specific fields:
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the development of the collectivity,
- the community development,
- the administrative guides of the Corp. |
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short, they include social, economic concertation between
the two linguistics groups of and cultural promotion of the
community and the the community.
Members
of the board (2007-2008)
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