{"id":3208,"date":"2014-09-11T08:23:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-11T12:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.apls.ca\/?p=3208"},"modified":"2015-07-19T10:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-19T14:02:11","slug":"historic-property-divides-small-quebec-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/3208","title":{"rendered":"Historic property divides small Quebec town"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.apls.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/101986491.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"137\" \/>When <strong>Chantal Cr\u00eate<\/strong> moved full-time to her cottage in Lac-Simon, a lakeside resort northwest of Montreal where she had summered for more than 30 years, she thought she\u2019d finally get around to reading all the books she never had time for as a busy stay-at-home mother in Gatineau.<\/p>\n<p>But instead of enjoying lazy days and magnificent sunsets from her deck, Cr\u00eate, 50, a former lecturer in educational psychology at the University of Ottawa, has devoted the last 18 months since moving to <strong>Lac-Simon<\/strong> to trying to save a heritage site overlooking the lake, whose pristine waters have attracted generations of summer residents.<\/p>\n<p>The struggle over the <strong>Domaine des P\u00e8res Ste-Croix<\/strong> \u2014 a 48-acre estate that <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationaltrustcanada.ca\" target=\"_blank\">Heritage Canada the National Trust<\/a><\/strong>, a charity that raises awareness of historic places, identified in July as one of the country\u2019s\u00a0<strong>10 top endangered heritage sites<\/strong>\u00a0\u2014 is a saga complete with shadowy investors, controversial First Nations leaders, former city of Montreal officials and the religious order that owns St-Joseph\u2019s Oratory.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.montrealgazette.com\/business\/Historic+property+divides+small+Quebec+town\/10198645\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">Read Marian Scott's feature in the Montreal Gazette!<\/a><\/p>\n\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions BEGIN -->\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/3208\" data-layout=\"standard\" data-action=\"like\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-width=\"450\" data-share=\"1\" ><\/div>\n<!-- FB Like Button Starbit IT Solutions END -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Chantal Cr\u00eate moved full-time to her cottage in Lac-Simon, a lakeside resort northwest of Montreal where she had summered for more than 30 years, she thought she\u2019d finally get around to reading all the books she never had time &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/archives\/3208\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[96],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-informations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3208"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3212,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3208\/revisions\/3212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apls.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}