Century-old house was built by Thomas BreenThe Gardens of EvaLuxurious phonograph

Century-old house was built by Thomas Breen

a historic site since 2006

The Gardens of Eva

trees, flowers and a multitude of plant varieties

Luxurious phonograph

that we find only in bourgeois houses

The Heritage House

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 […]

The Breen
Family

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 Guigues Village

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 and the Sundial

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 […]