Association des Familles
Dufour d'Amérique Inc.
(Dufour families association of America)
(Dufour families association of America)
Website and Facebook:
The association is increasing its development in the web space
- We have signed a hosting agreement with the company OMGSERV for our website. The servers are in Canada and our programmer Benoît Dufour preferred this host because it is flexible, suits our needs and is secure. In addition, the fees are lower than the budget granted by the Association;
- We have registered a new domain www.DufourAmerique.ca. This domain name was chosen at the meeting of October 26, 2024. However, the temporary address www.familledufour.ca will continue to point to our site, this domain belongs personally to Steve Dufour and he leaves it at the disposal of the association, free of charge, for an indefinite period;
- We have refreshed and standardized the website and the work is continuing;
- We asked Google to index this site, which has already started;
- We have increased the number of our publications on the Facebook group;
- We have placed links to the Facebook group on several of our web pages;
- A unique address to contact the association has been created: familles@dufouramerique.ca. This address automatically connects the secretary and the webmaster;
- The English version of the site is being refreshed.
Board of Directors Meeting:
On Saturday, October 26, 2024, an emergency Board of Directors meeting was held in Drummondville. The items on the agenda were:
- Welcome
- Acceptance of the agenda
- Acceptance of the Minutes of the last Board of Directors
- Acceptance of the Minutes of the General Meeting held in Trois-Rivières
- Acceptance of the letter of resignation of President Marlène Roy
- Complete the end of the mandates of Marlène Roy as Director and as resigning President
- Appointment of the person for the 2nd signature for checks normally done by the president and make it official at Caisse Desjardins with a resolution.
- Update our file with the Financial Institutions done by the secretary
- Post-mortem of the 2024 Gathering in Trois-Rivières
- Follow-up of the future Bulletin No. 59
- Treasury report
- Filing of monthly financial statements
- Report from the archivist Ghislaine
- Varia or new business
- 2025 Gathering
- WEB site and social networks
- Size of the Board of Directors
- Location of future Board meetings
2024 Gathering:
The 2024 gathering took place on June 1 and 2, 2024 at the Travelodge by Windham hotel in Trois-Rivières, under the theme of the Association's 35th anniversary. During the annual general meeting, outgoing president Hébert Dufour stepped down after a one-year reprieve granted to the association. A new president was appointed in the person of Marlène Roy. Thank you Marlène for accepting this role. A new administrator was elected in the person of Josée Bernier to take the place left vacant by Hébert Dufour. The other members at the end of their terms agreed to renew their position and everything was accepted unanimously. More to come.
Board meeting:
On Saturday, November 11, 2023, the first Board meeting was held in Drummondville since the Annual Meeting of June 25, 2023. The items on the agenda were:
- Agenda;
- Acceptance of the minutes of the Board of Directors of March 4, 2023;
- Filing and Acceptance of the minutes of the General Meeting of June 25;
- Filing and Acceptance of the 2022 Annual Budget Report;
- Filing and acceptance of the monthly financial report as of October 31 and the final financial report of the gathering last June;
- Archivist's report
- Post mortem of the June gathering
- Gathering of June 7 and 8, 2024 with budget pro forma and program overview
- Bulletin No. 57
- At the miscellaneous point:
- Our Facebook and our website;
- Next meeting on February 24, 2024 in Trois-Rivières.
You will see that this meeting was filled with significant discussions and decisions, namely: - Despite the publication of only one annual Bulletin (phase 2 of the transition from the bulletin to the Facebook page), you will receive the next Bulletin No. 57 in early December and another less formal bulletin in mid-May in preparation for the next gathering. Hébert showed a draft of Bulletin No. 57 and discussions ensued on the articles.
- After the discussions on the program, the comments will be sent to Lise St-Jean who was unable to attend the meeting; Marlène Roy, as highlighted at the AGM, reiterated her offer to support Lise in preparing the next gathering. Discussions also focused on the preliminary pro forma budget document and the administrators decided that the costs should not exceed $200 per member given that the gathering will be held over a day and a half. NOTE: If you have any questions, you can contact an administrator of your choice to answer them.
2023 Gathering:
The 2023 gathering took place from June 22 to 24, 2023. The event was a great success. On Saturday, we had a visit to Chateau Frontenac and the Vice et Vertu gin distillery in St-Augustin-de-Desmaures followed by the impressive Illumini show in Wendake. It all ended on Sunday with a visit to the unmissable Citadel of Quebec, not to mention having the opportunity to visit the Lieutenant Governor's residence within the Citadel itself.
Family Origins of Gabriel-Robert Dufour:
In reality, the pandemic had the effect of cancelling all activities planned for the summer of 2020.
BUT there was some positive!! Indeed, this pandemic prevented our friend Guy Charpentier from returning to the country on time. He had to "confine himself" in Laval in Mayenne for several months! This left him a lot of time to do research in the registers of the Lisieux region: he was lucky enough to find several documents relating to the family, parents, brothers and sister of Robert Dufour, ancestor of a large number of Dufours. See the results of his research by following the links
en France, ORIGINES FAMILIALES Gabriel-Robert Dufour.
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