From Burton to Barton, part 24: The Summer of '46

MCQ Views and Voices

Feb 23 2022 • 39 mins

This week, Julie Miller and François Roy take a look at the summer of 1946, the first peacetime summer after the long and dark war years .  People were picking up their lives and trying to get back to normal, but as often happens after momentous societal upheavals, life was never going to be the same again.  The summer of 46 was special for a lot of reasons, and people in Trois Rivières had reason to cheer right through the summer and into the fall. In fact, as you’ll hear, it was uncanny how many news articles from the Saint Maurice Valley Chronicle that summer mirrored news stories from our own times...

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