Established in 1906, the century-old house was built by Thomas Breen, a blacksmith and businessman. He commissions Louis Caron Senior, the renowned architect that designed Canada’s Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier’s house in Arthabaska, to create the house plans. The building is a pure example […]
Thomas Breen was born in Liverpool in 1881. Both Catholics from Ireland, his parents immigrated to England, fleeing the great famine. Thomas is 8 months old when his mother dies and his father sends him to an orphanage. At the time, religious authorities and philanthropic […]
The canton of Guigues is erected in 1882, followed shortly by the township of Duhamel and that of Laverlochère. In 1887, 632 people from 92 families reside in Témiscamingue; 20 families live in the township of Guigues. In 1897, the founding year of the municipality, […]
The Church The village’s church is the oldest one in Abitibi-Temiscamingue (1902). In early March 1901, twelve pioneers from St-Bruno-de-Guigues set out for the Ontario side of Lake Temiskaming to cut pine logs for the construction of their future church. With Father Moïse Desjardins leading […]